5000 Year Leap – 25th Principle “Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship with All Nations — Entangling Alliances with None.”

“These are the words of Thomas Jefferson, given in his first inaugural address.”

We are so entangled with other nations that the spider has us firmly trapped in her web.  We must cut ourselves free of our entanglements and all those who encourage such relationships.

“This was the Founders’ doctrine of “separatism.”  This was far different from the modern term of “isolationism.”  The latter term implies a seclusion from other nations, as though the United States were to be detached and somehow incubated in isolation from other nations.”

Skousen describes the original intent of the Founders to be similar to that of modern day Switzerland.  Switzerland managed to avoid wars, conflicts and trouble by remaining politically neutral.  During major conflicts they also positioned themselves as a safe place to do business.

Washington described this approach in his “…famous Farewell Address:

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.  Cultivate peace and harmony with all.  Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?  It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an altered justice and benevolence.”

It feels good just to read this statement.  Tragically, a major shift took place spawned by those who would profit.  We moved toward “Internationalism” and away from “Separatism”.

“”Separatism, ” and pursuing a “manifest destiny” to encourage the emancipation of “the whole human race,” was the official policy of the United States for the first 125 years of its history.”

We abandoned this higher ground of promoting peace as the world’s great Peacemaker and slid into the bloody role of the world’s great Policeman.

How many permanent military bases do we have abroad?  Why are we still in this role of policeman?  When will we allow the peoples of the earth to handle their own problems?

Bullets, guns and bombs are not the path for the United States to achieve her “Manifest Destiny.”  I am not a war hawk nor am I afraid of war.  Ready armed, ready to defend our land and certainly my family against all who would hurt us or our citizens is my position.

I believe our best defenses should be used to guard our own borders and the billions put into our military should be partly shifted to securing our own land.  True, that during the time of our founding, ICBMs were not a reality, and they are today.  So, to guard against missiles from space perhaps we need to boost our missile defenses.  That being said, we cannot solve the world’s problems when our own house is out of order.

“…the United States has been involved in three major wars, including the holocaust of World War II.  Looking back, one cannot help wondering how much happier, more peaceful, and more prosperous the world could be if the United States had been following a policy of “separatism” as the world’s great peacemaker instead of “internationalism” as the world’s great policeman.”

God Bless You and God Bless a Free and Separate America!