Obama is Right on Cuba - The Repub's soooo Wrong
Posted: February 3rd, 2015, 8:03 am
Marco Rubio - "“This entire policy shift announced today is based on an illusion, on a lie, the lie and the illusion that more commerce and access to money and goods will translate to political freedom for the Cuban people”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world ... tions.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Huh? Open and peaceful commerce is exactly what the Cuban people need.
The Repub's are nothing more than jingoistic busy-bodies.
"If good don't cross borders, soldiers will."
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." - Thomas Jefferson
J Reuben Clark:
J.REUBEN CLARK,JR.:
POLITICAL ISOLATIONISM REVISITED
MARTIN B. HICKMAN AND RAY C. HILLAM
http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-conte ... N01_39.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
[pg 38]"[W]e have entered into new fields to impose our will and concepts on others. This means we must use force, and force means war, not peace."
[pg 38]"meddlesome busybodiness"
[pg40]Given man's fallibility, therefore, it ill behooves any nation to seek to impose its ways upon the rest of the world. The desire to do so, Clark believed, was "born of the grossest national egotism," and the result could only be an "unholy tragedy"
[pg 40]"What we do to others, we must permit others to do to us"
[pg 43]"If we are to be the Savior of the world," he wrote, "we must come to our task with the spirit and the virtues of a savior"
[pg 43]He reacted to our plans at the end of World War II to occupy and reconstruct our defeated enemies on the basis of the Atlantic Charter by asking the hard question, "Who is going to occupy us to see that we keep the standards?"
[pg.45]The American mission, he believed, was not to impose its solutions upon the world but to set an example of justice, freedom, and peace which would be a compelling attraction to other nations. For the United States to seek to impose its will on the rest of the world was to resort to force and abandon moral principles, a course which would be a denial of the mission itself. Clark, therefore, accepted the oft-repeated maxim that no matter how good the end, it does not justify the means. He seemed to sense clearly that if the United States insisted on being Rome it would require its citizens to be Romans. He saw a higher goal for Americans: not to be Romans but Christians.
[pg 45]"We must come to the task of decision that now [1944] faces us, with the purest motives. Avarice, greed, selfish ambition, the thirst for power and place and dominion, must all be thrust from our hearts. We must come with the loftiest patriotism, with a single allegiance, undivided, unshared, undefiled, for the Constitution under which we live—so in effect runs the oath of office of each of you who grace the Bar of this commonwealth. Our hearts and hands must be clean of all foreign isms and alien political cults. The Constitution and its free institutions must be our ensign. For America has a destiny—a destiny to conquer the world,—not by force of arms, not by purchase and favor, for these conquests wash away, but by high purpose, by unselfish effort, by uplifting achievement, by a course of Christian living; a conquest that shall leave every nation free to move out to its own destiny; a conquest that shall bring, through the workings of our own example, the blessings of freedom and liberty to every people, without restraint or imposition or compulsion from us; a conquest that shall weld the whole earth together in one great brotherhood in a reign of mutual patience, forbearance, and charity, in a reign of peace to which we shall lead all others by the persuasion of our own righteous example."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world ... tions.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Huh? Open and peaceful commerce is exactly what the Cuban people need.
The Repub's are nothing more than jingoistic busy-bodies.
"If good don't cross borders, soldiers will."
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." - Thomas Jefferson
J Reuben Clark:
J.REUBEN CLARK,JR.:
POLITICAL ISOLATIONISM REVISITED
MARTIN B. HICKMAN AND RAY C. HILLAM
http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-conte ... N01_39.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
[pg 38]"[W]e have entered into new fields to impose our will and concepts on others. This means we must use force, and force means war, not peace."
[pg 38]"meddlesome busybodiness"
[pg40]Given man's fallibility, therefore, it ill behooves any nation to seek to impose its ways upon the rest of the world. The desire to do so, Clark believed, was "born of the grossest national egotism," and the result could only be an "unholy tragedy"
[pg 40]"What we do to others, we must permit others to do to us"
[pg 43]"If we are to be the Savior of the world," he wrote, "we must come to our task with the spirit and the virtues of a savior"
[pg 43]He reacted to our plans at the end of World War II to occupy and reconstruct our defeated enemies on the basis of the Atlantic Charter by asking the hard question, "Who is going to occupy us to see that we keep the standards?"
[pg.45]The American mission, he believed, was not to impose its solutions upon the world but to set an example of justice, freedom, and peace which would be a compelling attraction to other nations. For the United States to seek to impose its will on the rest of the world was to resort to force and abandon moral principles, a course which would be a denial of the mission itself. Clark, therefore, accepted the oft-repeated maxim that no matter how good the end, it does not justify the means. He seemed to sense clearly that if the United States insisted on being Rome it would require its citizens to be Romans. He saw a higher goal for Americans: not to be Romans but Christians.
[pg 45]"We must come to the task of decision that now [1944] faces us, with the purest motives. Avarice, greed, selfish ambition, the thirst for power and place and dominion, must all be thrust from our hearts. We must come with the loftiest patriotism, with a single allegiance, undivided, unshared, undefiled, for the Constitution under which we live—so in effect runs the oath of office of each of you who grace the Bar of this commonwealth. Our hearts and hands must be clean of all foreign isms and alien political cults. The Constitution and its free institutions must be our ensign. For America has a destiny—a destiny to conquer the world,—not by force of arms, not by purchase and favor, for these conquests wash away, but by high purpose, by unselfish effort, by uplifting achievement, by a course of Christian living; a conquest that shall leave every nation free to move out to its own destiny; a conquest that shall bring, through the workings of our own example, the blessings of freedom and liberty to every people, without restraint or imposition or compulsion from us; a conquest that shall weld the whole earth together in one great brotherhood in a reign of mutual patience, forbearance, and charity, in a reign of peace to which we shall lead all others by the persuasion of our own righteous example."