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Monday, January 13, 2003
Matthew Yglesias disagrees with this critique of libertarian hawks, but my own opinion is that it doesn't go far enough. Libertarians make several broad arguments against government activism in domestic problems:
Every one of these arguments applies as well to international activist government as to local activist government. In some cases they are truer - a Washington bureaucrat is more likely to have the knowledge to made a sound decision about Missouri than about Kosovo or Agfhanistan, where he probably doesn't speak the language or have any serious understanding of the local society. It would be one thing if libertarian hawks really seriously looked at how these problems applied to foreign policy - but what they seem to do quite often is to simply assume all their warnings about the dangers of government aren't applicable to the military. |
