Creative Minority Reader: The Isolationism of Our Founding Fathers

The Cranky Conservative is...well...cranky today. He's upset because people believe discussing history is lifting a few quotes out of context and pretending it is history. Today he takes on the belief that our Founding Fathers were isolationists and what that says about our current alliance with Israel.

Historical illiteracy is bad enough, but even more infuriating is encountering someone who thinks they have a good grasp on history but who in fact really knows nothing more than a few good quotes that they’ve heard mentioned somewhere else. Like biblical fundamentalists picking out pieces of scriptures divorced from all context, these would-be professors can recite bits and pieces of speeches and writings that they think bolsters their argument, but instead prove nothing more than that they can ape what others have said.