The Lincoln
Curse
(Obama Edition) by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
"... Prior to 1863 American foreign
policy was based mostly on the Washington/Jeffersonian ideology of commercial
relations with all nations, entangling alliances with none. It was considered a
virtue to remain neutral in disputes between two other countries. As
Murray Rothbard wrote in an essay entitled "Just War," in those days "neutrality
was considered not only justifiable but a positive virtue." In the old days, "he
kept us out of war" was a great tribute to any political leader, wrote Rothbard,
and "standing idly by" while other nations warred with each other was "a mark of
high statesmanship." Lincoln and his political descendants in both major
political parties, but especially the Republican Party, changed all that with
their enormously successful implantation of Lincoln’s imperialist fantasies
about perfecting the entire planet as the bedrock of American foreign policy
ideas..."Mais
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