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Title: Republican: A History Lesson About War View count: 3774 Rating: 5.0 (1 ratings) Description: Republican: A History Lesson About Republican Wars, Interventions, And Liberations This took me a while to make and I couldn't list all the sources it took to finish this. I'm sick and tired of Ron Paul and Bob Barr cultists telling me what my party used to stand for. I'm tired of non-interventionists calling me a neo-conservative just because I'm not a carbon copy of Robert Taft. News flash- Taft lost to Eisenhower and he lost for a reason. The Isolationists and non-interventionists NEVER had firm control of the Republican Party except during a select few years as a result of WWI and American contempt for Europe. Only two real isolationist Republicans ever got elected president, Harding and Hoover, who both kind of sucked and even still followed interventionism quietly while denouncing it in public. Truly, people only supported non-interventionism when it came to global, European disputes, and I can't blame them. That didn't stop them, though, from intervention in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. I'll repeat it again, the Party was never firmly isolationist or non-interventionist. In fact, the Republican Party was founded on interventionist philosophy. It emerged from the ashes of the Free Soil Party and Whig Party out of an effort to stop the expansion of slavery. So it's true that some conservatives and Republicans, after seeing young Americans go off to fight and die for imperialist Europeans for no reason, didn't want anything to do with getting involved in world affairs or global disputes. But that doesn't mean Libertarians can go around telling me what my party used to stand for, because the anti-Europe and anti-war sentiment didn't start until WWI came around. But what about before WWI? Are we going to completely ignore the first Republican presidents and statesmen? Lincoln defeated the South and occupied it and Republicans put in military governments. Grant continued this and fought the Ku Klux Klan, the terrorist wing of the beaten Democratic Party, and oversaw Reconstruction. William McKinley lead the US in the Spanish-American War and liberated Spanish colonies and ended human rights abuses, and intervened elsewhere in places like China during the Boxer Rebellion. Roosevelt followed McKinley with Big Stick Diplomacy. Taft with Dollar Diplomacy. Why forget that conservatives and Republicans were NOT originally like Robert Taft? Because it's easier than learning the facts. The Party has always been interventionist. Some times in the early 20th century after the Wilson era that was less obvious, but from Fremont to McCain we've stood strong in the belief that freedom is worth fighting for. From the Civil War, to Indian Wars, to Banana Wars, to the Spanish-American War, to the many interventions before, during, and after the Cold War, conservative Republicans have answered the call. Hell, many generals and soldiers have historically been Republicans like Eisenhower, MacArthur, Grant, and Pershing. The military today is overwhelmingly Republican and conservative. These are not neo-con allegations; these are the facts. If almost every conservative and/or Republican since Fremont and Lincoln have been chickenhawk neo-conservatives, then the Ron Paul types are nothing but chickenchicken neo-isolationists. Truth- It's what's for dinner! Tags: ron, paul, bob, barr, sarah, palin, nader, john, mccain, plumber, joe, biden, hussein, obama, interventionism, non-interventionism, war, commentary, analysis, documentary, gotcha!, grassroots, outreach, news, political, commercial, athletics, business, communications, computer, science, Author: TheCobaltAgent |
