Scott Horton

It's almost like people who want peace should be called cis foreign policy because now we have to come up with a funny word to describe a normal state of being.

When no one calls Mexico an isolationist state, it's because they mind their own business.

And is there any faction anywhere in America that calls himself isolationist?

Even the paleo-conservatives who favor much more trade protectionism and that kind of thing than libertarians.

They don't call themselves isolationists.

They still want to have an open relationship with the world to some degree.

When isolation means like the hermit kingdom of North Korea or some crazy thing like that.

No one wants that for the United States of America.

What we want is independence, non-interventionism, and peace.

That's right.

It's a smear term invented by interventionists and internationalists to attack anyone who didn't want to go along with their agenda.

The term itself is used essentially as a smear against anyone who doesn't want to go to war.

Dr. Paul said we could defend this country with a couple of good submarines.

Which, by the way, for people who don't know, one American Trident sub could essentially kill every city and military base in Russia.

Just one.

So he's absolutely right about that.

A couple of good submarines are enough to defend our coast and deter anyone from messing with the United States of America.

And then I admit I'm a little bit idealistic about this, that I think of that old William Jennings Bryan speech, Behold a Republic, where unlike the empires of Europe, burdened under the weight of militarism, here we have a free country.

And where, you know what we could do?

We could be the host of peace conferences everywhere.