Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our
interests in the Western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The massacres in the middle east and Africa by radical Islamic
extremist have aroused the deep sympathy and just indignation of the
American people, and we believe that the United States should exercise
all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end. In Israel, American
residents have been
exposed to the gravest dangers, and American property destroyed. There,
and everywhere,
American citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at
all hazards and at any
cost. We should have a policy of supporting indigenous freedom fighters
so we do not have to be directly involved and lessen the need to flex
our military might unless directly attacked. Freedom cannot be handed to
a people on a silver platter and for us to expect that freedom to last
when it is not earned is foolhardy I will reassert the right of the United
States to respond unilaterally to the appeals of any American State or
treatied ally for military
intervention in case of radical Islamic encroachment. We have
interfered, and shall no longer interfere,
with the existing possessions of any Islamic Power in the Eastern
hemisphere, but those possessions
must not, on any pretext, be extended. I hopefully look forward to the
eventual withdrawal of Western Powers from the Eastern hemisphere, and
to the ultimate union of free people. [ good but needs tweaking ] |