[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 191 (Thursday, December 13, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H15445]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    NON-INTERVENTION AND NEUTRALITY

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, Bruce Fein is a nationally syndicated 
columnist who was a high-ranking official during the Reagan 
administration. He does not support a neocon, globalist, world 
policeman-type of foreign policy for the U.S., a foreign policy that 
used to be considered as the policy of liberals.
  Last week, Mr. Fein wrote a column describing the traditional 
conservative view. He wrote: ``Non-intervention and global neutrality 
should be the national security creed of the United States. Every 
soldier deployed abroad should be returned to deter and defend the 
United States at home. Non-intervention and neutrality everywhere, 
coupled with the threat to annihilate any United States attacker would 
make the country safer, freer, and more prosperous. Foreign 
adventurisms create more enemies than they destroy.
  He also quoted George Washington's farewell address, in which 
President Washington warned against ``overgrown military establishments 
which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and 
which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican 
liberty.''
  In other words, Mr. Speaker, the traditional conservative view is 
what was expressed by President Bush during the 2000 campaign when he 
came out very strongly against nation building and said the U.S. needed 
a more humble foreign policy.

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