Mea Culpa
January 31st, 2004 - 6:37 pm
Radley Balko responds to yesterday’s post — and I owe him an apology.
Trying to be brief in an already over-long essay, I inadvertantly lumped Radley’s stance (pro-Terror War, anti-Iraq Campaign) in with the no-war-at-all peaceniks. For that I’m sorry.
Reasonable people can (and should) disagree reasonably over Iraq, and Radley is one of those reasonable people. But I stand by the rest of the piece.
Whither the Libertarians (and the libertarians)?
Stephen Green has caused quite a stir with his two posts on the schism between “doctrinaire” and “pragmatic” libertarians over the conflict in Iraq and the broader War on Terror. The schism is really nothing new, and at some lev…
I wouldn’t flip-flop on this. Balko IS a no-war-at-all peacenik. He is notorious for his selective reasoning to push any half-baked anti-war theory he can find. The fact he isn’t a rude anti-war.com troll and that he tends to flip-flop on his support of anti-war positions does not let him off the hook.
At least the Lew Rockwell anarcho-dummies are consistant. Or is politeness the only qualification for non-peacenick status?
Thanks.
Stephen Green corrects himself for mischaraterizing my views on U.S. foreign policy. A stand-up post that he put up quickly,…