I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian: Confessions of a Black Sheep Republican
If I read Mr. Green correctly his main problem with libertarianism [small "l" as well as big "l"] is that it does not endorse a Bismarchian foreign policy. Apparently it is “unrealistic” to imagine that the U.S. should not be world police man and should not try to “promote freedom” by sticking a gun in every foreigner’s ear.
So here’s my question for Mr. Green and those of you who agree with him: Was the world of the 20th Century, where “everyone” more or less agreed with Mr. Green, a place where civilization was safer and spread wider than the mid 19th Century, where most Americans and many foreigners outside of Prussia and Russia thought this imperialist world outlook to be insane?
Does Mr. Green feel that the world is safe for freedom now that the Kaiser Will, the Nazis and the Commies are history? Or is in fact totally a mess and getting more collectivist and totalitarian every day?
Any possible causal connection anyone can discern between Greenism and a disintegrating Western Civilization, or is this “just happenstance”?
