[TightSqueeze]

John Quincy Adams's Warning Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy...

Friggin' peacenick!

[werwolf]

Thank you for the historical warning. Your posting by Adams makes me reflect on the anti-neoimperial argument which is being raised now around the US. It is a fair question to ask of those who welcome invasion of Iraq (or other nations) by the US if the war is about freedom and democracy. And if it is about maintaining the freedom and democracy of the citizens of the US, then why are other nations being invaded, without provocation? There seems to be a glaring and irrational contradiction in that argument.
I appreciate that you posted this message from Adams. Thanks.

[Restorer]

She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.

Except for several serious attempts to conquer Canada during the War of 1812.

And wholesale violation of treaties with various Indian nations.