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Ignore the Free-Riding International Peanut Gallery
Foreigners nudging America into their wars have brought us only debt and misery.
- Doug Bandow
- The American Conservative
Control Washington and you control the world.
At least, that is what many foreign interests believe.
Other countries have long had strong opinions about what America should do internationally, and have sought to see those ideas implemented in D.C.
No surprise, then, that what they propose usually benefits them more than Americans.
America’s policymakers should ignore this advice, no matter how fervently it’s offered.
And if any president is willing to tell this self…