Do You Trust Our Government With Anything? Much Less Foreign Policy?

I have had a hard time explaining to people why I am so excited and believing in a foreign policy that Ron Paul and the constitution advocate we use. We have all been scared and put into fear of all the other countries in the world especially if they are radical muslim.

I was formerly a, near neo-conservative Sean Hannity lets go kick everyones butt in the entire world before they get us, kind of guy. So I am very understanding of this point of view, but it still doesn't keep me from going mad trying to communicate freedom in all walks of life including foreign policy.

I have recently started summing up why I'm for a "Non-interventionism" style of foreign policy by asking a simple question,

"We don't trust our government to run anything including social security, education, airport security, etc and we want them less involved in every part of our life because we can't trust them with anything. So why do we trust that they are doing the best things in foreign policy?"

Less is more with government in all stages. Government is obviously drunk with power and that extends into foreign policy and war. We haven't declared war since World War II. I'm all for war if needed, but lets declare it, win it, and come home. Congress should declare war not the president send out drone strikes and troops to "keep the peace" or "support the rebels."

I don't think we should be so cavalier with trusting the government to give them ultimate power to trample the freedom of other nations and us. Every day the government continues with the Patriot Act and the Nation Defense Authorization Act we have not liberty or freedom.

At first they came for the jews, or the muslim supporting American (not sure how that saying goes...... which one was it) the point is if we give the government supreme power over us to "keep us safe" they will abuse it. Don't believe me? Think about the Wikileaks guy Julian Assange. Him and those associated with Wikileaks gave us important information of how the government was lying to us and he is now one of the most demonized men of the last few years. We could argue the morality of it all and whether it "endangered" the troops, but the point is the government lies and lies and lies.

Why give them more power than they need? Why trust them and not question their foreign policy? It makes no sense. Scale the government back, less power, less involvement including in foreign policy and in our private lives.

The Bantam Voice
"Freed people, Free People"
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