Florida state Representative Anthony Sabatini, with his hat in the ring to be the Republican candidate for Congress from the 7th district, was welcomed with cheers from his fellow Republicans a few weeks ago, when he argued for a non-interventionist foreign policy in a heated debate with arch-neoconservative Marc Levin, the debate’s moderator.
Sabatini recounted on Ron Paul’s Liberty Report Aug. 4, what happened at the Republican Party Convention when Levin asked him what his policy would be on Ukraine, were he elected to Congress. Sabatini (who calls Levin “a Bush-era radical interventionist") said that Levin “almost lost it” when Sabatini said we should observe the situation closely, but the U.S. should not be involved in Ukraine, and not be providing either military assistance or economic assistance. That sacrilege led to a hot debate on NATO policy, in which Sabatini said he argued that, sure, we should defend Poland if it is attacked, but we should not have expanded NATO, and, in fact, we should be getting out of it. He was greeted with “roar” of support when he told Levin that the U.S. should not get involved in wars unless American citizens were harmed.
Sabatini described the debate as revealing one of the “huge” divisions in the Republican Party today, between neoconservatives like Marc Levin and the Ron Paul or Tucker Carlson wings of the party, “much more rooted in classical realism.” Sabatini is happy that “our classic roots of non-interventionism now have some voice within the party.”
Sabatini, who is 33 years old, describes himself as a Robert Taft Republican and says he agrees with (that bum) Teddy Roosevelt that we should speak softly but carry a big stick, but he is proud that, as an active captain in the National Guard, he sponsored a state bill which would prohibit the federal government from deploying the National Guard for an overseas war unless the U.S. Congress had declared the war. There are eight candidates contending in the Republican primary, but he says he is among the top three, and in the leading position, according to a recent poll. The primary is Tuesday, Aug. 23. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxrw8nS4lw&t=214s )
