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Title: Ron Paul's Vision For A Tea Party Foreign Policy
Source: FOREIGN POLICY
URL Source: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts ... for_a_tea_party_foreign_policy
Published: Aug 27, 2010
Author: Joshua Keating
Post Date: 2010-08-27 20:36:00 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1877
Comments: 1

Thousands of Tea Partiers are converging on FP's hometown tomorrow for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the Washington mall, which will feature a speech by Sarah Palin and, controversially, take place on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. 

For all the overt displays of national pride at Tea Party events, it can be difficult to discern how the movement sees America's place in the larger world. New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker addressed this uncertainty in a piece for our most recent print issue:

The two most famous Tea Partiers, in fact, are at the opposite ends of the foreign-policy spectrum. Where Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential candidate with her eye on 2012 and her muscular talk of a movement of "Mama Grizzlies," embraces Bush's assertive foreign policy, Rand Paul, the son of the Texas congressman, extends his dad's don't-tread-on-me philosophy at home to mean don't tread on others abroad.

Congressman Ron Paul has graciously written a short response to Baker's piece which we are featuring on the site today. Paul makes the case that the movement should commit itself to a less militaristic vision of Republican foreign policy: 

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.

While Paul's views may not be representative of the entire Tea Party movement, it will be interesting to see if his brand of non-interventionist Republicanism gathers momentum. As Daniel Drezner recently wrote, the emerging generation of "Millenials," whose political experience has largely been defined by 9/11, two costly wars, and a global financial crisis, would seem to be the perfect audience for these arguments.  

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

I see tremendous opportunities for movements like the Tea Party to prosper by capitalizing on the Democrats' broken promises to overturn the George W. Bush administration's civil liberties abuses and end the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A return to the traditional U.S. foreign policy of active private engagement but government noninterventionism is the only alternative that can restore our moral and fiscal health. I am optimistic, and our numbers are increasing! ~ Ron Paul

You don't hear too much about the hObama adminsitration's civil liberties abuses, although those same abuses got a lot of press during the Bush administration. The 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendments are just as important now, as they were then. All of the BOR is important, including the 9th which covers undocumented rights, not listed as protected against infringement by the government.

Bring the troops home and put them on the border protecting the US. If you must bomb someone, Mexico might be a good candidate since they've been invading us for decades. At least boot all of the Mexican consulate officials out of the US, and close their 200+ consulates.

Hondo68  posted on  2010-08-27   22:33:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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