Wilsonianism is ingrained in both parties. Whenever someone from the Left or the Right, question our wars without end policy, they get smeared. Isolationist is the term used to silence critics of Wilsonianism. Rather than debate the merits of Spreading Democracy in the Islamic world and continuing letting other nations leech off us, debate is shut down.
Well things are different now. Most Americans, even Conservatives are now against interventionism. We have seen the waste the Iraq war was, where Americans died while France and China got the oil. Where despite 10 years of war, the Afghan people rather have sharia law than democracy. Now the war in Libya, where we are helping Al-Qaeda affiliated fighters, so Britain and France can get oil and arm,s contract. What has America gained from these wars? Absolutely nothing! Our economy is in shambles, 5,000 brave Americans dead and 10,000s wounded. This don’t matter to John McCain. He uses the isolationist tag in an attempt to silence critics.
Former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took aim at his party for what he called its growing movement towards isolationism, chastising the current GOP presidential field for not supporting U.S. military intervention in Libya and calling for speedy troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
“This is isolationism. There’s always been an isolation strain in the Republican party, that Pat Buchanan wing of our party,” McCain told “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour. “But now it seems to have moved more center stage.”
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“I wonder what Ronald Reagan would be saying today?” questioned McCain, saying the isolationism is a stark departure from traditional Republican foreign policy positions. “That is not the Republican party that has been willing to stand up for freedom for people for all over the world.”
John, Reagan never believed in spreading Democracy at the point of a gun. Also, no one is talking about isolationism, but to end the Afghan War. Afghanistan is a tribal society where Pedophilia is accepted. They will never have the same value system as us. The Karzai regime is corrupt and not worth our blood. With our economic and fiscal crisis, we can no longer afford these conflicts.
The fact that even Liberal Republican Mitt Romney is rejecting Wilsonianism speaks volumes. The United States is not the world’s policeman. It’s time for us to define our interests, arm regional allies like Israel or Colombia to the teeth and let them be our enforcers. When we go to war, we should seek economic benefits and not some naive democracy spreading project. John McCain is living in the past and doesn’t realize the world has changed.
Wilsonianism is a failed ideology and I’m glad the GOP is rejecting it. America needs to take care of home first before we go seeking demons overseas. Isolationism is not the answer, but Interventionism is not either. A middle path based on national interest and economic benefits is what should be used in whether we go to war. If there’s nothing in it for America’s gain, no thanks. I don’t care about the “freedoms” of people I don’t know. If people like John McCain and Ms. Lindsey want to fight for freedom in the Islamic world, let them start a private army.
