Obama Speech Connects to the Founders' Foreign Policy | Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary

Obama Speech Connects to the Founders' Foreign Policy | Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Still, for all their faults, the Founders views on foreign policy are worth recalling. They believed that the new nation should advance human rights and the cause of liberty by its example, not by force. They believed that military force was sometimes required, as does Obama today, for example, when he pledged to 'relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.' By the same token, the Founders realized that war was one of the primary vehicles whereby governments infringed upon individual liberty, and they sought ways to limit the government's propensity to wage war, particularly by giving the power to declare and fund wars to Congress."