Since the only proper role of government is to protect individual rights, its obligations extend to only two spheres of retaliatory action: to protect innocent citizens against foreign aggressors and domestic criminals. Respecting the former, the history of the past century shows no shortage of foreign aggressors ready and able to assail America and/or murder Americans—among them, National Socialists (Nazis), Communists, and more recently, Jihadists.

Given this unavoidable reality, the United States must be prepared to effectively defend itself against those who would initiate force against it.
Therefore, we stand for a strong, all voluntary, military, and for the willingness to use that military, around the world, if necessary, to defend America, American citizens abroad, and American material and economic interests.

We maintain that the best means of protecting the rights of American citizens from hostile nation states is the pursuit of a foreign policy of unswerving rational self-interest. We define rational self interest for the nation – in the same way we do for the individual – as a primary good that is not sacrificable to any other end. We define the good as a long-term benefit as judged by the fullest possible context. We understand that this moral orientation has fronted the rhetoric of every administration since the second world war while their practice has been the exact opposite. Korea, Vietnam, Central America, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq were all examples of sacrificing our rational interests for some other end. That men and women died or suffered crippling injuries in these wars for no long term political or material gain, or worse, for the beneficiary country to acquire the freedom to vote in hostile administrations, are brutal reminders of the folly of sacrificial ethics which dominate the domestic and foreign policies of most governments today.

A foreign policy guided by rational self-interest would make us good friends and trading partners with free nations across the globe. As consistent practitioners of our ethical standards we would have the moral authority to be an outspoken moral critic of dictators everywhere, and a fearsome threat to dictatorships that seek to harm our great nation by either direct attack, or indirectly through our interests abroad.We declare as our highest values reason, freedom, individual rights, the non-initiation of force, and the prosperity and peace that follow in their train. We neither prize nor seek the horrors of war.

But to those who physically attack America and/or American people and/or property, our response will be swift and unswerving. With the moral certitude that comes from unbreeched integrity our enemies will be met with the full force and might of the United States military to secure, and defend, our nation and the lives of its citizens.