There are two forms that must balance out given real world realities. Individual Liberty of course(the only type paultards think exist) AND the collective liberty of the nation as a whole.
This concept of “national” liberty, apart from individual liberty is a pernicious notion that finds its origins with the Left on the Continent. There, the subversion of the latter principle in favor of the former — better known at that time as the principle of “national self-determination” — is what set the Continent on the road to all the varieties of socialism we known and love.
As such, it is the ideological wedge that the Left used to co-opt and eventually invert American liberalism into its own opposite.
So jp, I’d suggest you check your premises. There is no need to import Leftist ideological trojan horses in order to justify a strong national defense.
