So Clinton thinks the US should work for a world where we can find acceptance from other countries and be a "good citizen" of the world so that someday when we are no longer the biggest dog on the block, we can lay down and roll over?
I don't think I could have encapsulized the primary problem of Clinton and his ilk with such brevity if I tried.
His view of the US and its proper relationship to the world reflects his view of the proper relationship between citizens and their government, which is basically that individuals have no Liberty except that given by the state, and that getting along and security are of more value than Liberty and God given rights.
I think Winston Churchill addressed this:
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Winston Churchill
and Sam Adams:
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -Samuel Adams, 1776
and John Stuart Mill:
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth fighting for is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
I don't think I could have encapsulized the primary problem of Clinton and his ilk with such brevity if I tried.
His view of the US and its proper relationship to the world reflects his view of the proper relationship between citizens and their government, which is basically that individuals have no Liberty except that given by the state, and that getting along and security are of more value than Liberty and God given rights.
I think Winston Churchill addressed this:
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Winston Churchill
and Sam Adams:
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -Samuel Adams, 1776
and John Stuart Mill:
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth fighting for is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."