A Memorial Day Reflection
As we reflect and honor our war dead on this Memorial Day 2016, perhaps it would be wise for us to step back and look at the fruit of our sacrifice. I honor our war dead, but I have to really wonder about the powers that sent them into battle. This especially true concerning our wars in Europe.
Time has confirmed what many knew all along, that the European countries do not value individual freedom and liberty as we do. The natural tendency of those countries is to gravitate towards authoritarian type governments. Those who valued liberty left Europe long ago and founded the USA. Europe's mindset will never allow them to be what America is. They will always look to authority. Strangely enough, I believe this is why many on that continent seem to be laying down and letting the Muslims take over.
The collapse of the USSR might have been the salvation of Europe in ways we could not at first comprehend. The USSR kept Russian nationalism in check for 70 years. With that yoke now broken, the Russian Empire is resurging. The day will come, I believe, that Europeans will have to choose which master they want to be ruled by, their native European Russian brothers, or Muslim hordes. Either way, they will be ruled, and the USA needs to think long and hard before we shed one more drop of blood to "make them free".
I close with the words of the Framers themselves...
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“I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property and lives of their people.” (Thomas Jefferson, to James Monroe ME: 15:436, 1823.) |
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“I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against the principles of liberty.” (Thomas Jefferson, to Elbridge Gerry ME 10:77, 1799.) |
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“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...” (George Washington, Farewell Address) |
| Quote: | | “I sincerely join... in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and though I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.” (Thomas Jefferson, to Thomas Lomax ME 10:124. 1799.) |
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“We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country, nor with the general affairs of Europe. Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.” (Thomas Jefferson, to C. W. F. Dumas ME 9:56. 1793.) |
| Quote: | | “America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.” (John Quincy Adams, 1821.) |
| Quote: | | “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.” (George Washington, Writings of George Washington, 35:231.) |
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