In order to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons we need to understand why countries want nuclear weapons, and then we need to understand the incentives that could be put in place to cause them to not want those weapons anymore. We can boil the reasons for countries wanting nuclear weapons down to four primary motivations; 1) self-protection, 2) money/power/prestige,…
Foreign Policy
After you read any of what’s here you may decide that my policies are foreign indeed. Conservatism always sounds strange to those not used to it.
Those who had them first. If there is ever to be a rollback of nuclear weapons worldwide, it should start with those who got the weapons most recently. Why? Because only those countries who had the weapons in the absence of them being possessed by other countries can be trusted to not use the weapons irresponsibly. “But didn’t the US…
It seems as though conservatives are often on the side of sanctions, embargos, and the like as a means of punishing “rogue” nations. But since when have they worked? Finally, someone in the GOP is addressing this when it comes to Cuba. Sanctions haven’t worked on Cuba after 47 years. Castro is still in power, and when he…
I don’t understand the embargo on Cuba. Oh, I can understand well enough, I believe, why it started, I just don’t get why we’re still doing it. From my perspective, the objective of the U.S. with regards to Cuba is to encourage the formation of a democracy rather than the current dictatorship. To that end, it would seem that the…
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Trade Policy
If elected President I would reform our trade policy as follows:
Our trade policy with individual countries will mirror the policy they set with us. For example, if they eliminate all tariffs for our products, we will eliminate all tariffs for their products. If they subsidize certain parts of their economy, we will not subsidize the same part of our…
I haven’t read much of the New York Times before, partly because there’s only so many things one can read in a day, and partly because I’ve been under the impression that it’s heavily biased towards a liberal/socialistic viewpoint of the world. Today I happened to be on the NY Time reading an article about skateboard shoes when…
