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Daniel Meegan's avatar

No Deals let them defend themselves

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

This was John Quincy Adams' advice, given two centuries ago to the House of Representatives:

"[America] has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.

She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of ... the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.

But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all."

Why do I get the feeling that Adams foresaw that once America went "abroad, in search of monsters to destroy", there would be no end to it? Once you make a mess overseas ...

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