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05-27-2008 09:53 AM |
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
(Post 457191)
No it doesn't. While the Constitution mentions the common defense, defensive warfighting was not a shibboleth of the Founders. Indeed, the Constitution says essentially nothing about how foreign policy shall be conducted -- and a moment's thought will show you it shouldn't.
Lying in the service of antiimperialism, radar, is just plain ridiculous. Especially when we are the premier nonimperialist great power. It becomes ridiculous through lack of necessity.
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Yes it does way that and I haven't lied. The phrase "Common defense" is repeated twice; once in the preamble describing one of the purposes of creating the Constitution and another in Article 1, section 8 when describing the limited powers of Congress. The phrase "Common Defense" defines and limits the role and scope of our military as being solely for the defense of America and for nothing else. It limits the war making powers of congress to being solely for the defense of America.
This isn't a lie. The liars are those who deny it. Also, your claim that America isn't an imperialist nation is laughable. America's government has saught to control other nations through bribes (foreign aid), threats, coercion, "nation building" (aka launching an illegal invasion and propping up leaders or dictators that are friendly toward the goals of the American government), using the U.N. as a tool, etc..
Neither America's military, nor it's wealth were created to "fill in the gaps" in places around the world that are lacking these things. America's military has one and only one purpose and that is to defend America from being attacked or invaded by hostile foreign armies. End of story. Anything else is a lie. Any use of America's military for any other purpose including peace keeping missions, humanitarian aid missions, enforcing UN resolutions, and any pre-emptive actions are 100% unconstitutional and illegal. They are a gross misuse of the military and anyone who orders or takes part in such actions is guilty of treason.
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