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Millions for Defense, but not one cent for tribute.”, should be updated both as to amount and purpose, in view of Iran-Contra, Middle East policy, and other considerations and realities, to read.” “Trillions for defense (and offense) but only billions for tribute.”
And Stephen Decatur’s, much quoted, “our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”, doesn’t read well when set against the Declaration’s assertion of our “decent respect to the opinions of mankind”, our participation in the United Nations, our support for its declaration on human rights, the wurenberg trails, and our insistence on respect for human rights, by nations seeking MostFavored Nation treatment, or recognition by the United States.
Two, political, slogans, of lesser importance, than some already written of in this essay, are also deserving of attention and modification or rejection: One “Politics stops at the waters’ edge.” It doesn’t and: second: “I believe in the two-party system.” a tenet which is contrary to John Adams observation, that the worst political situation he could foresee for government, ‘under the Constitution, was a politics controlled by two strong factions or parties.
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