A Noble GOP Legacy Ruined by the Bush Family
by James Buchanan
In his farewell address, Washington said to avoid “foreign entanglements” (that might drag the US into a European war). In a letter to Patrick Henry, Washington wrote “My ardent desire is… to keep the (United) States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none…” Just a few days ago, George Bush stood before the American public saying that “isolationism” was wrong and “protectionism” was wrong. How would he know? He’s never tried either of those policies, and he’s a poor student of history.
For most of the twentieth century, the Republican Party clearly had a better legacy of peace than the Democrats. A Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, not only created the evil Federal Reserve System; he also got us into World War One. In the years after World War One, Americans realized that they had been duped by phony war propaganda. This led to public demand for the Neutrality Act of 1935. Unfortunately another Democrat, the great criminal Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was president for four terms. He wrote loopholes into the Neutrality Act. FDR started a secret naval war with Germany in 1940 and did everything he could to provoke a war with the Japanese Empire until we were finally attacked at Pearl Harbor.
There were two no-win wars against Communism under Democrat Presidents. Most of the peaceful time during the twentieth century coincided with Republicans, including Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower and Reagan. Nixon inherited a war from Johnson, which he eventually ended (although Nixon should have abruptly withdrawn our forces from Vietnam instead of dragging out the war for another four years roughly doubling the casualties).
America became involved in only two minor conflicts during the Reagan presidency. The rescue of American students at Grenada and the occupation of part of Beirut, which cost 241 Marines their lives in one giant truck-bombing. Reagan later admitted that the Beirut mission was the biggest mistake of his presidency.
The legacy of peaceful times with Republican presidents ended with the evil Skull and Bones criminals of the Bush family. Bush Senior invaded Panama (possibly as part of a CIA vendetta). Bush the older then lied us into the First Gulf War against Iraq. There was no alliance between the US and Kuwait that would have given the US a reason to make war on Iraq. Bush ended his presidency with a third pointless operation in Somalia, which degenerated into a full scale disaster under Clinton as shown in the film “Blackhawk Down.” Bill Clinton continued the string of wars with a war on Serbia to protect Albanian drug lords as well as periodically bombing Iraq just for fun (e.g. Operation Desert Fox).
George W. Bush continued the lopsided support of Israel and the failure to condemn Israeli atrocities, which had outraged the Muslim world. This policy led to the 911 attack on the World Trade Center. Contrary to propaganda from the neocons, 911 was completely avoidable. All we had to do was follow George Washington’s advice and mind our business and stay out of the Mid East conflict. Instead, we took the Israeli side and we were finally attacked here at home by the radical Muslims (assuming the 911 attack wasn’t a black operation by the Mossad or CIA).
Bush’s biased foreign policy blundered us into the “war on terror.” The neocon cabal operating within the Bush administration then generated phony intelligence, which led to the Iraq War. Not only did Bush get us into two large serious conflicts, most Americans believe we were lied into the War on Iraq.
Avoiding war had been one of the few redeeming features of the GOP. A Democrat president was almost a guarantee of a pointless bloody war which America could have just as easily avoided. The arrival of the Bush family ruined this legacy of the GOP. Today Republicans who represent the traditional isolationist view of the Republican Party such as Pat Buchanan are ridiculed as “wrong” by the warmonger neocons and their obedient stooge, George W. Bush.