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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2451292" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>As far as the "will of the people" goes, we lawyers have a saying: a legal fiction, in the diction of the kitchen, is a crock. Then there is the more minor point that the national government would be breaking it's own highest law by inserting itself into foreign wars without a declaration from Congress... but if there was any doubt, recent events have made it abundantly clear that the leaders of the government do not feel bound by any law. Laws are meant for us Plebians... the political class plays by their own set of rules. </p><p></p><p>I don't think the U.S. government has ever given isolationism a fair chance. As far as foreign entanglements go, I am of the opinion that we would all have been a lot better off if the government had stuck with the John Quincy Adams doctrine over the last Century and stayed out of Europe's bloodbaths, the Sino-Japanese war, and every other conflict since... but then it's hard to prove a negative. Of course we DO know the consequences of those particular interventions... half of the globe delivered into the grasp of a collection of the worst tyrannies in human history, probably the worst of which is still alive, well, and more powerful than ever (the Chinese Communist Party).</p><p></p><p>Fear mongering aside, it is hard for me to imagine how things could have ended up any worse if Americans had minded their own business all last Century and let the collectivists blast each other into oblivion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2451292, member: 4235"] As far as the "will of the people" goes, we lawyers have a saying: a legal fiction, in the diction of the kitchen, is a crock. Then there is the more minor point that the national government would be breaking it's own highest law by inserting itself into foreign wars without a declaration from Congress... but if there was any doubt, recent events have made it abundantly clear that the leaders of the government do not feel bound by any law. Laws are meant for us Plebians... the political class plays by their own set of rules. I don't think the U.S. government has ever given isolationism a fair chance. As far as foreign entanglements go, I am of the opinion that we would all have been a lot better off if the government had stuck with the John Quincy Adams doctrine over the last Century and stayed out of Europe's bloodbaths, the Sino-Japanese war, and every other conflict since... but then it's hard to prove a negative. Of course we DO know the consequences of those particular interventions... half of the globe delivered into the grasp of a collection of the worst tyrannies in human history, probably the worst of which is still alive, well, and more powerful than ever (the Chinese Communist Party). Fear mongering aside, it is hard for me to imagine how things could have ended up any worse if Americans had minded their own business all last Century and let the collectivists blast each other into oblivion. [/QUOTE]
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