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Responding to: http://news.iskcon.com/node/2472 and

http://blog.beliefnet.com/omsweetom/2010/01/beck-bath-and-bizarre.html

Dear Vineet Chander,

Please make this critical distinction: Glenn Beck is a NEO- Conservative (read war monger), NOT a Conservative.

The hallmark of genuine Conservatism in International Relations is Non-interventionism, the diplomatic policy whereby a nation seeks to avoid alliances with other nations in order to avoid being drawn into wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.

Thomas Paine is generally credited with instilling the first non-interventionist ideas into the American body politic in his work Common Sense. George Washington’s farewell address is often cited as laying the foundation for a tradition of American non-interventionism. John Adams followed George Washington’s ideas about non-interventionism, and President Thomas Jefferson extended Washington’s ideas in his March 4, 1801 inaugural address: “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”

You referenced Glenn Beck’s (recent) Mormonism. He is totally out of touch with the peaceful traditions of the Apostles and Patriarchs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Apparently, he is completely uninformed (or uncaring) about how Mormon Church Founder Joseph Smith reacted when faced with an armed militia intent upon killing him. http://tinybang.com/1519

I beg of you, do not slander the reputations of Conservatives or Mormons by leading people to incorrectly believe that Glenn Beck represents either.

Sincerely,

Indy