Issues - Foreign Policy

National Sovereignty

Since its founding, The United States has been a free and sovereign republic. We should strive to live in peace with all nations, never interfering in their internal affairs, and certainly never permitting their interference in ours. I am, therefore, unalterably opposed to entangling alliances - whether by treaties, or by way of any other form of commitment - which compromises our national sovereignty, or commit us to intervention in foreign wars.

• I will always oppose American participation in any form of world government organization, including any world court under United Nations auspices;
• As your representative, I will join other congressmen in calling upon the President to terminate United States membership in the United Nations, and its subsidiary organizations, and terminate U.S. participation in all so-called U.N. peace keeping operations;
• I support barring the United Nations, and its subsidiaries, from any further operation, including raising of funds, on United States territory; and
• I wholehearted believe that your representatives must obey the Constitution to prohibit the United States government from entering any treaty, or other agreement, which makes any commitment of American military forces or tax money, compromises the sovereignty of the United States, or accomplishes a purpose properly the subject of domestic law. Specifically, I denounce the agreement establishing the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and any other such trade agreements, either bi-lateral or regional in nature. All treaties must be subordinate to the Constitution, since the Constitution is the only instrument which empowers and limits the federal government.

American troops must serve only under American commanders, not those of the United Nations or foreign countries.

Pacts and Agreements

Since World War II, the United States has increasingly played the undesirable role of an international police force. Through our involvements abroad our country is steadily being changed from a republic to a world empire in which our freedoms are being sacrificed on an altar of international involvement. The United States is now committed by treaty to defend foreign nations in all parts of the world, and by agreements other than treaties to defend more. Therefore, I will join other congressmen in calling upon the President to immediately commence a systematic withdrawal from these treaties and agreements, each of which holds the potential to plunge America into war in some far-flung corner of the earth.

NATO, for instance, serves no defensive purpose for the United States, and this country should withdraw from it.

Unconstitutional, Undeclared Wars

Since World War II, the United States has been involved in tragic, unconstitutional, undeclared wars which cost our country the lives of many thousands of young Americans. These wars were the direct and foreseeable result of the bi-partisan interventionist policy of both Democrat and Republican administrations.

I am opposed to the continuation of the same interventionist policy, with that policy's capacity to involve our country in repeated wars.

As your Representative I will demand that:

• never again shall United States troops be employed on any foreign field of battle without a declaration of war by Congress, as required by the United States Constitution;
• Congress refuse to fund unconstitutional, undeclared wars pursuant to presidential whim or international obligations under which American sovereignty has been transferred to multi-national agencies.

Foreign Involvement

I am opposed to any American involvement in conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and South America. The United States has no interest in these areas which would justify the sacrifice of Americans on foreign battlefields - nor is our country properly cast as a merchant of death in international arms races.

I support the United States

• repudiation of any commitment, express or implied, to send U.S. troops to participate in foreign conflicts, whether unilaterally, under NATO auspices, or as a part of the United Nations "peace-keeping" operations; and
• cease financing, or arming of belligerents in the world's troubled areas.

I support the principle of the Monroe Doctrine, which expresses U.S. opposition to European adventurism in the Western Hemisphere.

I will support the immediate termination of American military presence in all foreign countries where such U.S. presence constitutes an invitation for this nation to become involved in, or further participate in, foreign wars.

I am opposed to the negotiation or ratification of any treaty which would deprive United States citizens of their rights under the United States Constitution.

Foreign Aid

Since World War II, the United States has engaged in the greatest international giveaway program ever conceived by man, and is now spending billions of dollars each year to aid foreign nations. There is no constitutional basis for foreign aid. These expenditures have won us no friends, and constitute a major drain on the resources of our taxpayers. Therefore, I will support

• no further funds being appropriated for any kind of foreign aid program;
• ending United States participation in international lending institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund;
• the abolition of the Export-Import Bank;
• ending all government subsidies, tax preferences, and investment guarantees used to encourage U.S. businesses to invest in foreign lands; and
• collecting all debts owed to the United States by foreign countries, or foreign entities.