Look to Switzerland

Looking to the country, Daniel Larison reminds us that "there is no absolute contradiction between favoring a relatively large military and a neutral foreign policy," even if "in the American context we have rarely seen the two combined" — The Swiss Option.

He quotes one Conor Friedersdorf noting that "it is nevertheless demonstrable that the strategy redounded to the benefit of the Swiss, and the fact that they’ve prospered for 500 years, despite being adjacent to great powers that warred incessantly, suggests that isolationism can work far better than its critics imagine."

Steve Sailer quotes the same Conor Friedersdorf quoting John McPhee that "[i]n every part of Switzerland, there are streets and plazas and equestrian statues—there are busts on plinths overhung with banners and flags—doing honor to the general of an army that did not fight" — Questions.

"For seven hundred years, freedom has been the fundamental story of Switzerland, and we are not prepared to give it up now," we read following the link — The Porcupine Principle. "We want to defend ourselves, which is not the same as fighting abroad. We want peace, but not under someone else’s condition."

It is well known that the Swiss Confederation looked to our young Republic as a model of Federalism. We would do well to look back across the Atlantic for a model not only of that aspect of our constitution that we have lost, but also of the noble United States non-interventionism we have lost as well.