• act as a much-needed check on the executive branch’s reflexive tendency to expand the global political and military role of the United States under the guise of U.S. "global leadership,"
• initiate a comprehensive review of existing U.S. security commitments and jettison those that are not clearly linked to vital national security interests,
• review the defense budget and make the necessary reductions to bring it in line with a security strategy that is based on the defense of vital national security interests, and
• refuse to provide funding for military interventions except in the unlikely event that such an intervention is a necessary response to a national security threat.

• U.S Security Strategy Cato
• Spreading Freedom: Building Democracy and Public Diplomacy (See Chapter 21)
• 2008 update: Liquidating the Empire - by Pat Buchanan

Ultimate objectives:

Eliminate all foreign political entanglements

This means no foreign aid to our enemies

Create a national commitment to Faith-Based Security

"In God We Trust" -- our national motto
"God Bless America" -- national security as a by-product of national obedience

The Myth of National Security

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