You can believe anything you wish. As to the principles, I can recommend some books if you wish.
I am all in favor of individual liberty myself, including the right to choose where and from whom I buy my goods and services.
But only sometimes, I guess.
But I am also in favor of an economically strong, even dominant, nation that can produce it's own necessary hardware and commodities, and do it without outside help if necessary.
Freedom has everywhere and always produced what you seek when compared to other types of human living arrangements. And the idea that this country, if returned to freedom cannot make it's own things is bizarre.
It's quite decent of you to permit me to have my own beliefs. I'll take your permission as an affirmative answer to my question, an answer which explains a lot in itself.
But only sometimes, I guess.
That is correct. I believe there are times and situations in which the nation's security, and mine, takes precedence over my right to choose in a few less important matters, such as how much I pay for CD players and coffee makers. But I realize that concept is foreign to libertarian dogma, as is the idea of limited immigration and secure borders.
Since the U.S. Constitution explicitly grants congress the authority to impose duties on imported goods as one of it's enumerated powers, I don't consider tariffs on imports which are deliberately underpriced in order to destroy domestic manufacturers to be a limitation on my personal liberty. It seems to me there is a long list of much more egregious infringements on our real civil liberties to be addressed before we worry about the constitutionally permissable imposition of tariffs.
If tariffs will ensure the revival of the once formidable American industrial base, the same base which was so instrumental in winning full scale wars such as WWII, the few additional dimes or even dollars I may pay for American made products is an infinitessimally small price to pay for the economic and military security of the nation. But would such tariffs ensure that revival? That was the gist of the question I posed in a previous post, and an answer rooted in doctrinaire libertarianism doesn't answer that question. But thanks anyway.