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And although the LP's notion of "just leave them alone and they'll leave us alone" sounds nice in theory, it doesn't acknowledge life in the "real world."
An unrealistic foreign policy, and any number of other issues you'd care to mention, prove the LP ls in "cloud coo-coo land." They claim to be Constitutionalists, but few, if any, of the Founders would have agreed with any of their positions. I, too, had a brief flirtation with the LP. When some of them started advancing a free market approach to national defense, I knew they must be a bunch of wackoes. No kidding. Back in the 1970s and 80s they were seriously discussing privatizing our national defense and having the contract for it put out for bids like you would contract for paperclips or toilet paper. The Henry Georgeists were even saying you could abolish the military and just repeal all gun laws and let private citizens form private militias. Sound goofy! You bet.

When some of them started advancing a free market approach to national defense, I knew they must be a bunch of wackoes. No kidding. Back in the 1970s and 80s they were seriously discussing privatizing our national defense and having the contract for it put out for bids like you would contract for paperclips or toilet paper.

That's what we do with much of our weapons systems and military supplies. Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Pratt-Whitney, etc. are private firms that the military contracts with.

Granted going all the way with privitazation the military would not likely work. But we do privatize certain aspects of it.