Foreign Policy

Our foreign policy is one that has always been based on the American values and principles of freedom, liberty, and the right to independence. We find these values in the Declaration of Independence.

Our foreign policy has never been one of “one policy fits all” meaning the specific way our values and principles are acted out in policy depends on the circumstances. For example, we have always used diplomacy to resolve conflicts. Whether that approach has been with direct diplomacy, regional nations working to resolve conflicts such as the Six Party Talks with North Korea, collective bodies such as NATO, UN, or the EU working to resolve issues with rogue nations that choose not to comply with the world’s viewpoint. We tried repeatedly to go to the UN over Iraq issues, but Iraq defiantly chose not to follow the resolutions of the UN. When diplomacy fails, the US must be prepared to stand for the values and principles that have been our guiding inspiration since 1776.

We completely understand the sovereign rights of a nation, but when a nation, rogue states or rogue terrorists endanger our national security, then the US will follow practices modeled by
• Thomas Jefferson who stood up against the Barbary States
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Theodore Roosevelt who reacted to Germany’s attempts to attack Venezuela
(Roosevelt Corollary)
• Harry Truman who sent troops to Korea, Greece (Truman Doctrine)
• Dwight Eisenhower who sent troops into Lebanon (Eisenhower Doctrine)
• John F. Kennedy who launched the attempted Bay of Pigs invasion and later his blockade of Cuba to stop the Russian missiles in Cuba
• Ronald Reagan who went against Libya for sponsoring terrorists responsible for shooting down Pan AM flight over Lockerbee, Scotland (Reagan Doctrine)

There are times when diplomacy fails, and the United States must be willing to stand and fight for freedom, liberty, and the protection of our nation’s security.

Article IV of the United States Constitution compels the United States government to defend and protect the United States from any national security threat.

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:

In 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to see what made this young republic special. His conclusion was what he called American Exceptionalism. In his seminal work, Democracy in America, Tocqueville stated that the Americans level of civic participation in groups and associations such as religious groups (now known as faith based organizations), businesses, patriotic societies, veterans groups, was the heart and soul of America’s greatness. This civic society took action and worked to help those in need and to make society better. This, in Tocqueville’s opinion, was what made the United States unique because Americans were not sitting around waiting for the government to solve problems. Tocqueville urged Europeans to model themselves after the Americans instead of waiting on the behemoth, bureaucratic monarchies that governed Europe to solve their socioeconomic problems.

American Exceptionalism DOES NOT mean we are better than other nations or people, but it means we are unique in our commitment to civic involvement in solving socioeconomic problems not only in our nation but in helping globally with those in need. Of all the charitable participation in global issues, 62% of all the funds come from America’s private sector—--the faith based organizations, volunteer groups, NGOs (Non-government organizations---that comprise and exempify America’s Exceptionalism.

The role the private sector plays in our foreign policy on a personal basis is an invaluable asset that Tocqueville so aptly described in 1832 as American Exceptionalism. How pathetic is our mainstream media and the liberal left that they don't get this, don't understand it, and even more ridiculous, don't want to get it.