Interventionism and Isolationism by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2019-10-25 at 20:02:46 )

Interventionism and Isolationism by Jacob G. Hornberger

When President Trump decided to relocate a few troops on Syrias northern border and announced that he would withdraw all the other United States troops from Syria, interventionists went ballistic. They said that President Trump was leading the United States of America to "isolationism."

That is pretty funny, given (1) there is still no assurance that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency are going to permit Trump to withdraw all United States forces from Syria; (2) President Trump is sending troops that he withdraws from Syria into Iraq and Saudi Arabia; (3) President Trump continues to maintain troops in Afghanistan despite having had three years to have taken them out; (4) Trump continues to partner with the Saudis in their brutal war in Yemen; (5) President Trump imposes sanctions and embargoes against any regime that bucks his will, including Turkey, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, and others; (6) the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency continue to maintain foreign imperial bases and secret prison camps all over the world; (7) President Trump has kept the United States in NATO and other entangling alliances; and (8) foreign aid continues flowing into foreign regimes, dictatorial ones.

If that is "isolationism," I would hate to see what interventionism looks like!

When we talk about foreign policy, there are two different systems from which to choose - the system of the statists, both Republican and Democrat, and the system that we libertarians favor.

The statist system

The statists have brought us a system in which the president, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency wield the unlimited power to intervene anywhere in the world they choose. Such interventions can take the form of coups, assassinations, invasions, wars of aggression, occupations, sanctions, embargoes, and partnerships with dictatorial regimes.

Under this system, there are no external limitations on the power to intervene and meddle in the affairs of other countries. No one even enforces the requirement in the United States Constitution that the president secure a congressional declaration of war before he, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency wage war.

That is the system under which we United States of Americans live today, thanks to the statists, both Republicans and Democrats.

But it is more than that.

The statist system is also one in which the United States of American people in the private sector are prohibited from freely interacting with the people of the world. That is what the sanctions, embargoes, trade wars, trade restrictions, travel controls, border restrictions, and Berlin fences and walls are all about.

Thus, the system under which we live today unleashes the power of the federal government to intervene in foreign affairs while, at the same time, isolates the United States of American private sector from the rest of the world.

Ironically, one justification for isolating the private sector is to protect it from the threats that the Pentagons and Central Intelligence Agencys interventionism produces abroad. Thus, if the Pentagon and the CIA invade a country and kill thousands of people in the process, United States officials say that it is necessary to keep United States of Americans safe from the threat of retaliation. That is how the secret surveillance schemes and travel restrictions come into play, for both foreigners and United States of Americans.

The libertarian system

There is another system, however a better one - one that we libertarians favor. It is the opposite of the system under which we live, with respect to both the government sector and the private sector.

Our system calls for no more governmental interventionism in the affairs of other nations. No more coups, foreign military bases, CIA prison camps, invasions, occupations, assassinations, alliances with dictatorial regimes, wars of aggression, sanctions, embargoes, entangling alliances, foreign aid, and the like.

At the same time, our system calls for a dismantling of the national-security establishment - i.e., the Pentagon, the military-industrial-congressional complex, the CIA, and the NSA. Our system calls for the restoration of a limited-government republic, which was the United States of Americas founding governmental system.

Ironically, that is what interventionists call "isolationism." They say that such a system "isolates" the United States of America from the rest of the world because it prevents the military and the CIA from "interacting" with the rest of the world with invasions, coups, warships, troops, bombs, missiles, and the like.

The interventionists forget the other half of the libertarian paradigm - the United States of American private sector, the sector that they strive to isolate under their system. With our system, we do the opposite. We unleash the private sector to freely interact with the people of the world.

No more sanctions, embargoes, trade wars, travel restrictions, immigration controls, or other government measures that prevent United States of Americans from interacting with foreigners or that punish them for doing so.

That is not "isolationism." That is the opposite of isolationism because although the United States government is prevented from interacting with the world through death and destruction, the United States of American people are free to interact with the rest of the world with tourism and trade.

The best United States of American diplomats are American tourists and businesspeople. Foreigners love them because they bring friendship and commerce. The worst United States of American diplomats are federal bureaucrats, especially those in the Pentagon and the CIA. Foreigners hate them because they bring arrogance, death, and destruction to foreign lands.

The United States of American people have a choice. If you want more death, destruction, and isolationism of the private sector, just keep supporting the system that Republicans and Democrats have foisted upon our nation.

If you want peace, prosperity, normality, and harmony with the people of the world, join up with us libertarians.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!