Guest Post by Ron Paul
Even Republican stalwarts like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are starting to notice that something is shifting in the party. While McConnell announced recently that he would step down as Republican leader in the US Senate, in an interview last week he was adamant that he would continue to serve out his term in the Senate with one purpose in mind: “fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party.”
He sounds worried.
What McConnell deems to be “isolationism” had for much of our history been called America’s traditional foreign policy. There have been major exceptions, but until the emergence of the neoconservatives starting in the late 1970s we largely adhered to the words of John Quincy Adams that America, “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.”
Why is that? The idea had always been that we would have more influence on freedom worldwide by concentrating on demonstrating the benefits of a free-market economy and protection of our Constitutional liberties at home. The US would lead the world by example rather than leading at the barrel of a gun.
When we strayed from that idea we got disasters like Vietnam.
But then in the 1980s, the neoconservatives seized control of the foreign policy of the Republican Party (and eventually much of the Democratic Party). They were determined to remake the world in their image through the use of force.
The military-industrial complex and all the special interests loved this takeover because it meant a huge transfer of wealth from the middle class to them, the moneyed class. The American people at first accepted the hollow promises of the interventionist neocons, believing as they were told that it was the “patriotic” thing to do.
What we are now seeing – and it is evident in the polls as well as in speeches of our politicians – is a shift away from interventionism. The mood has changed, and more Americans are tired of being told they must sacrifice to save the rest of the world from itself.
Recently Col. Douglas Macgregor posted on Twitter, “We have lost $14 TRILLION over the last 20 year on dumb interventions in other countries. What good has it done?”
Many Republicans are asking that same question. What have we gotten for the first $100 billion to Ukraine? A victory for “freedom” like we were promised? No. We got rampaging inflation, decreasing standard of living, and demands for another $100 billion!
What did we get for the trillions we spent in the 20-year war in Afghanistan? Peace and democracy in the region? Hardly. As it’s often said, we spent 20 years in Afghanistan replacing the Taliban with the Taliban. All the money wasted, all the lives destroyed, all the blood spilled over 20 years and the interventionists achieved nothing. Worse than nothing.
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing serious pressure from House Republicans over his desire to keep spending on overseas intervention. That’s one reason the “national security supplemental” foreign aid bill has not been brought to the Floor. All of a sudden interventionism is a loser with more of the American people, and politicians are paying attention.
McConnell may think that he can stem the tide by preaching more intervention, but not even the Senate Republican leader can stop an idea whose time has come.
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Per Dan Bongino , recent. Swampy Rino repugnicants want to retire and give control of the house to democrats , then laws can be passed to keep Trump off ballot or disqualify him if elected.
I’m sure they would pass all kinds of bad laws as fast as possible, even with no Trump issue.
So…just walk out like a bunch of pouty assed little Democrat bitches running from their own offices to avoid a vote?
“Pull out? Doesn’t sound manly to me, Bill. I say leave it in there and get the job done!” – George Carlin
He doesn’t have to stop shit.
All he has to do is CIRCUMVENT shit…and he’s VERY fucking good at that.
Apparently, rules and law are for the idiots who believe in them. I mean, that’s what my senses are telling me.
A buddy of mine said, “so you’re an isolationist?”. I said “No. I’m a non-interventionist”. Isolationists are those negritos on the Andaman Islands who kill with arrows anyone who lands on their island. I just prefer to let people fuck up their own countries rather than us doing it for them.
Common ground at last!
We have wasted 14-15 trillion in these neocon wars with nothing to show for it. For this expense, we could have and a great network of trains, improved roads and bridges. Instead McConnell and friends have given us pot holes and inflation. And we are no more secure.
Why would the US Congress spend the money on America, when they are owned by Israel?
Fcuk the Turtle…and the RINO’s he rode in on…
If we go to a full time peace economy then what will happen to all those factory workers and the factories where we make war stuff? Oh, I forgot. We shipped all that to Mexico and China decades ago. Never mind.
” Even Republican stalwarts like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…”
Stalwart : marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit
I think the definition of ‘stalwart’ is a bit different when referring to a politician. Instead of outstanding strength and vigor, it’s someone who has achieved a certain level of corruption and venality
But hey, they dress nicely, don’t they?
Bottom line is the Congress are all traitors. 98% of Congress takes money via PACs from Israel, and Israel owns them outright.
You can only serve one master, and the master of the US Congress is Israel..
Any so called American that supports Israel is a traitor….
The US Congress supports full blown Nazi’s in Ukraine, and Genocidal Religious Psychopaths in Israel. They are therefore war criminals and accomplice’s in the Genocide of innocent civilians….
The other 2 percent are indirectly bought by Jews.
We’ve lost 14 trillion because the costs of these interventions are socialized while the profits of these interventions are privatized.
Imagine where we’d be if the profits were accrued to the gov’t and spent on infrastructure and the common good.
We’d have free utilities, cheap and healthy food, free health care, and a massive and thriving middle class, with a diminishing poverty level, along with high literacy, low crime, and an almost non-existent oligarch class.
Those thoughts are nice enough to get an A+ on a 7th grade social studies paper.
McConnell is the top RINO which he will continue to be even when he steps down. Remember all the changes that were made when Trump was first elected, and republicans had majorities in both the house and senate? No? Neither do I.