I’m sorry, you can’t be a libertarian and also condone the U.S. building over 700 permanent bases in 90% of the world’s sovereign nations.
Dr. Paul’s foreign policy is the true libertarian foreign policy. Anything else is simply empire disguised as “libertarianism.” The claim that what we’re doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere is “national defense” is a complete bastardization of the English language if not logic and common sense as well.
For over 10 years we illegally bombed Iraq (no fly zones were not sanctioned by the UN as so many like to suggest) and apparently expected that this would bring no justifiable retaliation.
It is absurd to think that the US System is dedicated to the principles of freedom any longer. One man cries out in the wilderness and people like Glenn Reynolds have the audacity to claim that he is promoting national destruction.
Libertarians who actually agree with US foreign policy are simply advocates of the “might makes right” doctrine which is anti-libertarian. They can call themselves libertarians all day long but they are still just authoritarians at heart.
