No biden spoke the truth. But The moment we let our enemies dictate who we vote for we have lost. Are you suggesting we wave the "White flag of surrender."

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Internal yes. but once they cross a border we need to examine our interests.

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Our interests end at the point where one enters international waters from our shores.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

An oversimplified notion to say the least.

Its funny how when the American revolution happened we could not have done it without France. And the GW quote you spouted was I believe in reference to a french problem.

We owed it to our ally to help them do the same thing they helped us do. But when they called in their marker that is what we got. Adams got to deal with an entire term dealing with the fact that we screwed them over hard core.

But you stick to you belief. Because the world is a large place and we have no need for allies.

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And? There is nothing wrong with diplomacy and getting 'recognized' by other sovereign entitities.

Are you referring to the quasi-war?

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Well, I could have gone into this long explanation with a lot of quotes from old time famous guys but I figured the shorter answer is better for this venue.

Well, we might not have been able to do it without France's help. England was, after all, one of the world's superpowers at the time. But it doesn't mean Washinton was wrong.

In the long term we were better off not getting involved

Allies, no. Friends and trading partners, yes.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."