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Old 09-12-2012, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Antitrust32 View Post
some smart guys thoughts:

George Washington:

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."Thomas Jefferson, admonished in his inaugural address : "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
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ignore it, repeat it.
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