In these perilous times, the lack of a key founding principle from Washington and Jefferson will prevent America from being great again. President John Quincy Adams tells us why:
“America does not go abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that, by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.”
Today’s America, instead of supporting freedom and independence by example, entangles itself in foreign conflicts, issuing a rallying cry for freedom while propagating unnamed interests. During the 20th century, American monopolistic capitalists, whose loyalty alone strives to make a profit, sold weapons used to kill American soldiers on the battlefield.
Yes, this happened in Vietnam! The John Birch Society, during the war, circulated a SHAME: STOP HELPING AMERICA’S MARXIST ENEMIES petition and presented it to Congress and the Administration with six million signatures. It detailed how 80% of the sinews of war, for North Vietnam, were indirectly supplied by Americans and free world capitalists that killed American soldiers on the battlefield.
Lenin is credited with the quip: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them;” however, its origin is unsure. What is certain is the Soviets knew the evil nature of man, for they knew themselves. In 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, after being expelled from the Soviet Union, described his perception of America. His actual words were, “they will fight with each other to sell us the goods cheaper and sell them quicker so that we’ll buy from one rather than the other.” Yes, the Soviets knew their enemy well and still do.
Antony Sutton, historian at Hoover Institute, spent his life researching how American and free world monopolistic-capitalists built the Soviet Union into a military power. His books National Suicide: Military Aid To in The Soviet Union, in 1973, and its update, in 1986, called The Best Enemy Money Can Buy are irrefutable. Not learning this truth, the Soviets are justified in laughing at the American people for being so naive.
The 20th century “Monsters to Destroy” became Protection from communism that was built by free world business and technology, paid for by American workers, and carried out on the battlefield by American blood. History has shown America paid a high price in misery and wealth, proving Washington, Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams right. The days of freedom surviving is closer than the dream to make America great again. Check out ShopJBS.org for the reprint: Vietnam 50 Years Later
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