OBAMA SPOKE THE TRUTH ON FREEDOM AND WAR
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President Obama undoubtedly stunned proponents of the “war on terrorism” by quoting James Madison in his recent foreign-policy speech: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
In fact, Obama even shocked me with his use of that quote, given that The Future of Freedom Foundation has cited Madison’s quote innumerable times ever since the 9/11 attacks unleashed what would effectively become a perpetual war, one that is scheduled to outlast even the war on communism.
Madison’s words obviously carry a critically important message: Continuing the so-called war on terrorism means the loss of freedom for the American people.
By citing Madison favorably, that is the message that Obama has now delivered to Americans. The message obviously involves a choice for Americans: Either end the federal government’s war on terrorism or you can just kiss away your freedom for the rest of your life.
That’s the choice.
By the way, Obama failed to recite the entire Madison quote. Here is the full quote:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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