Free trade is fine. Globally managed trade is what sucks.
You said what I was going to say. But you said it better than I could have.
Agreed. I wonder if the author takes into account the corporate tax burden in this country.
Intellectually, I must require you to show that any country can manage the required logistics to win a war with unrestricted free trade. Manufacture and supply of all food, equipment,and fuel in quantity delivered where needed.
If you cannot, then you do not have a defensible position.
A position which requires peace as an assumed fact is not defensible.
Years ago, a Navy veteran asked Walter Williams (who was subbing for Rush) how things would pan out in war if the entire steel industry moves to Asia. Williams kept attempting to restate the question to mean something other than military logistics.
I doubt you have an answer either.
Any person pushing unrestricted free trade with no answer to this deserves and will receive ridicule from thoughtful conservatives.
Think this through before you react in haste.