Exported Democracy? No thanks.

Strother said:

"If the president really wants to make us safer, he shouldn't spend taxpayer money to tear apart a country half a world away just to rebuild it. He should spend our money here. He should do a better job of securing our ports, our transportation infrastructure, our borders, our way of life."

Exactly so. The so-called "Bush Doctrine" is a lie. We are busy wasting lives and money in a country that will likely revert to Sharia within five years of our departure. Meanwhile, Bush and his cronies push for open borders. Vicente Fox has all but annexed our border states. Every single one of the 9/11 perpetrators came in over the Mexican Border. So the Bush Administration has far exceeded its constitutional authority in "exporting democracy" to Iraq while at the same time, he has abrogated his constitutional responsibility to secure our borders. Furthermore, the bombings in London should make it obvious that we have done little in the way of preventing Al Qaeda from operating with impunity.

From John Quincy Adams:

"She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.

She 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 that Aceldama 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.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.

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 standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force..."