[FairOpinion]

But regarding defense and foreign policy, I would expect that Libertarians would agree with conservatives, in the sense of strong defense and no mercy for terrorists. By agreeing with the liberals on this, they really tipped the scale in the wrong direction.

I was getting acquainted with some libertarian philosophy, and I think they do have a number of good ideas, so I was saying "me too", in terms of limited government, fiscal responsibility, but this anti-war stance shows that they are either off on the side of the liberals, or that they lost their common sense and realism.

[gcruse]

this anti-war stance shows that they are either off on the side of the liberals, or that they lost their common sense and realism.

Fair enough As a small 'l' libertarian, I am not inherently anti-war.  The notion of pre-emption
gives me pause, though, and I was in favor of our going through the motions, at
least, with the UN to put some cloak of respectability on what we were about to
do.  We gave it a shot.  I see destablizing the ME  as a worthy goal in breaking up
that nest of vipers.  The other reasons given for attacking Iraq  -- ties to OBL, WMD's,
and a Hussein threat to the US remain to be proven.  Going to war hoping for
retroactive justification rattles my cage and should disturb conservatives, too.  The fact
that it doesn't is one reason I will remain in the libertarian camp.