Vid: Welch, Gillespie Talk Foreign Policy with Daily Caller!
The Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein recently interviewed Matt Welch and me about our new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (buy it now!).
In this segment, Weinstein asks us what a libertarian foreign policy would look like. Here's part of how Matt Welch responds:
"What Obama did with Libya was incredible. He said I am going to go to war because there might be a massacre in this city. It wasn't even because there is a genocide happening now, there might be a massacre in this one city. He didn't go to Congress with it. That lowers the bar even from [George W.] Bush, whose bar was helpfully lowered by Bill Clinton in Kosovo."
Watch the vid by clicking above or going here.
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Behind the bookcase are the two poles that Nick and Matt slide down to the Reasoncave.
"Incredible" is one word. "Impeachable" is another.
"Impeachable" would require that some non-negligible portion of our rulers not be hostile to procedural liberty.
Which is why we need the Censor.
Wouldn't matter, since the establishment would get to pick or influence the selection of Censor. We already have 9 Censors for laws, and look how well that turned out.
I've been thinking that the Censor should be totally independent of the rest of the government, yet constitutionally empowered to fuck with the "official" three branches. Kind of an anti-government.
The Censor? How many divisions has he got?
"Look at what they're wearing! I told you all those libertarians were anarchists!"
Black is slimming.
They're not "anarchists" until they throw rocks at a Starbucks.
They're Jedi.
Bush inconveniently had more Congressional and public approval for Iraq and Afghanistan than Clinton did for Kosovo.
Is Jamie Weinstein on a summer high school internship program for the DC?
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