"Foreign aid might be defined as a
transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor
countries."
Douglas Casey (1992)
"The
purpose
of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not
crusading
for goodness abroad."
Don Feder
"Modern famine is
either the result
of deliberate political policies (the Ukraine in the 1930s, Sudan right now) or of terrible economic
ideas (Ireland in the 1840s, China in the 1950s). To give food to the rulers of a famished country (as we
did in Ethiopia) or to distribute food so that the rulers benefit from
the distribution (as they did in Somalia) is simply to increase the
power
of the people who caused the famine. Then we are puzzled that our food
donations don't stem world hunger."
P.J. O'Rourke, All the trouble
in
the world, p. 15
"We have two choices:
Either we change
the way we live, or we must change the way they live. We choose
the
latter."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
(The 'we' he mentions must be the
warmongers
of the American Empire. RAB)
"Robbing one man is a
crime; robbing
millions is a social policy."
Joseph Sobran
"No
foreign policy
can be justified except a
policy devoted to the
protection of the liberty of the American people, with war only as the
last resort and only to preserve that liberty."
Senator Robert
Taft
"There are a
good many
Americans who talk about an American century in which America will
dominate the world. They rightly point out that the United States is so
powerful today that we should assume a moral leadership in the world .
. . The trouble with those who advocate this policy is that they really
do not confine themselves to moral leadership. . . In their hearts they
want to force on these foreign peoples through the use of American
money and even, perhaps, American arms, the policies which moral
leadership is able to advance only through the sound strength of its
principles and the force of its persuasion. I do not think this moral
leadership ideal justifies our engaging in any preventive war . . . I
do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military
force is justified as part of the basic foreign
policy of the United
States except to defend the liberty of our own people."
Senator Robert Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans, 1951
"[I]n thinking we can
solve the
world's
problems by turning our military into peacekeepers and social workers,
we've tragically betrayed the wise counsel of our founders. We fail to
bring harmony among people who've been trying to slaughter one another
for centuries, but we succeed in getting them to hate us."
Dr. Walter Williams
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