LKM On American Foreign Policy

Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. History has repeatedly proven that whenever single individual nations attempt to rule all the rest of the world, no matter how noble the intent to establish a global empire may be, said countries will eventually reach a breaking point when and where their resources will have become so thinly stretched abroad that internal domestic decline sets in, and leads to the collapse of the would-be empire nation from within.

America has a past history of repeated intervention into the international affairs of other nations, ostensibly for the latter's benefit. Such hubris presumes that America knows best, what is best for the rest of the world, and, in the name of superior virtue, imposes its will upon other nations, by military force of arms if necessary. QUESTION: Is the American government less sinful and corrupt, than those of other countries? Is not all government a synonym for bullying those out of power, by those who are in power? What is the difference, if any, between governing and bullying? Even in nations claiming to be ruled by documented constitutionalism, the citizenry knows all too well this bitter lesson, that mere words on official-looking parchment paper are not self-enforcing, to stay the hands of rulers ever greedy for more control over the masses of ordinary people.

The Bible declares, Jeremiah 10:23-24, that man is spiritually blind in his walk, without God's guidance over his footsteps. Psalm 14:1-3 tells us also that there is no man upon earth who does good, and sins not. Therefore, the substitution of American will over that of a local indigenous government in a foreign country can only mean substitution of one set of sins for another. As former President Ronald Reagan sagely observed, "Government tends not to solve problems, but merely to re-arrange them." President George Washington, therefore, was also wise, to advise America to avoid entangling alliances. Otherwise, God cannot bless America according to His Word, in James 4:4:--"Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whosoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

America must be the guarantor of its own liberty and prosperity, to the exclusion of that of all others.

-Lawrence K. Marsh