[Ten Megaton Solution]

Can the Libertarian Party even coexist with War on Terrorism?

No. It cannot. For the simple reason that liberty cannot exist in a nation that accepts the PATRIOT Act.

The party platform seems singularly incapable of keeping suicide killers out of the country

Yes, the Republican Platform and the Democrat Platforms were so overwhelmingly effective. By the way, I heard there's some vacant lots in lower Manhattan that weren't vacant when the Republicans took off in 2001. What happened?

or doing anything pre-emptively to stop the creation of terrorist cadres not already here.

What do you recommend when you say "pre-emptive"? Explain how freedom survives this.

[gcruse]

What do you recommend when you say "pre-emptive"?

The doctrine of pre-emption would have been unthinkable
before 9/11.  But 9/11 changed everything.  Another unlikely
but critical policy, Mutual Assured Destruction, doesn't work
against suicide attacks from groups dispersed in countries
around the world.  We have to get them before they get us.
It took me a while to come around to this way of thinking,
but there's really no other way.

[Servant of the Nine]

What do you recommend when you say "pre-emptive"? Explain how freedom survives this.

Freedom only applies to the United States and conditionally to other democracies.
No preemption within the US.
Destruction of anyone outside the US that might in some way threaten us.

Not equal and fair?
True.

Arbitrary and Brutal?
So what?

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