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McConnell cannot stop the non-interventionist tide.

Even Republican Storts, like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are starting to notice

that something is shifting in the party. While McConnell announced

recently that he would step down as Republican leader in the US Senate.

In an interview last week, he was adamant that he would continue to serve out his term in the Senate with one purpose in mind fighting back against the isolationist

movement in my own party.

He sounds worried.

What McConnell deems to be isolationism had for much of our history been called

America's traditional foreign policy. There have been major exceptions

but until the emergence of the

Neoconservatives starting in the late 1970s. We largely adhered to the words of

John Quincy Adams that America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Why is that? The idea had always been that we would have more influence on freedom worldwide by

concentrating on demonstrating the benefits of a free market economy and

protection of our constitutional liberties at home.

The U.S. would lead the world by example, rather than leading at the barrel of a gun.

When we strayed from that idea we got disasters like Vietnam. But then in the 1980s

the neo-conservative seized control of the foreign policy of the Republican Party, and eventually much of the Democratic Party,

they were determined to remake the world in their image through the use of force.

The military industrial complex and all the special interests love this takeover because it meant a huge transfer of wealth from the middle class to them and the moneyed interest class.

The American people at first accepted the hollow promises of the interventionist

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