This is for you, weasel. I want you to contrast George Washington's eminent good sense with your own foolish toolhood. I trust even you dare not call the author of these words an anti-American terrorist appeaser.
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? . . . . .
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.
The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest [such as with Israel] in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification [leading us to waste $2 trillion reordering the middle east to Israel's benefit].
It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others [ie, Israel murders American citizens and the president/Congress say nothing about it] which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. [The rest of the world and especially the Arabs now hates us, whereas before they generally admired us] And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) [The entire cast of Fox News - shills for Israel to a man], facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country [Congress, Fox News, the president, much of the FBI], without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. [pt1guard, for instance] How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public council? [Could be Fox's mission statement] Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake [For example, it should pay alarmed attention to the overwhelming evidence pointing to Israel's Mossad's hand behind 9/11], since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation [Israel] and excessive dislike of another [the Muslim world] cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. [Our media are too afraid to report the truth about "the lobby's" domination of our political class."] Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes [the Zionist fanboys collectively known as Fox News] usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. [Driving ourselves bankrupt to prosecute endless foreign wars while our own country is invaded by Mexico.]
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. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe [or Israel] 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. [Precisely the case with Israel.] 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.
