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 Nixon inherited a war from Johnson, which he eventually ended (although Nixon should have abruptly withdrawn our forces from Vietnam instead of dragging out the war for another four years roughly doubling the casualties). (more…)