The War Party's Enablers: all of us

SF Chroncile | 14 Spet. '03 | Robert Higgs

[week 71]

Grin!

[.cnI redruM]

WWII - A total waste of resources and Money.

[BenLurkin]

[michaelt]

Higgs is no liberal, but he seems to think that because wars usually end up in government growth, and government growth is bad, wars should not be faught. Its libertarian utopianism.

[TheDon]

Smells like libertarian foreign policy, i.e. nonsensical.

[Richard Axtell]

Very feeble article, and even more feeble post. Imagine the wonderful world we would live in, if we were to "democratize" our foreign policy. The left doesn't really like direct democracy anyway, as shown by their propensity to attempt to overturn elections via the courts, witness Florida-Gore 2000, Toricelli-NJ 2002, and now California Recall-9th Circus 2003. So, since they do not trust the "rednecks", and hate America in general, why democratize foreign policy? They wouldn't like the results of the FP Plebiscite anyway. Besides, the Democrat Party is the party traditionally known as the "War Party", just to clarify. Reason? Because they insist on initial isolationism, and appeasment... until World War is inevitable. Witness FDR; started out pacifist, became interventionist, but dithered around until the Axis threat was impossible to ignore. Clinton is a true Democrat in this regard, as he successfully ignored the growing threats of terrorism and nuclear proliferation, and continues to be aided by his minions, such as the author of this piece.

[avg_freeper]

Haven't most wars been declared, or at least made unavoidable by members of the "Peace Party".

The closest I could come to agreeing with the author of this piece is to say that conservative republicans are forced to commit American lives to militarily clean up the messes made by liberal appeasers way too often.

[Huck]

Or unconscionable.

[headsonpikes]

bump your post.

[Yardstick]

This war is not about killing people, but about stopping terrorism.

Somehow, some people just refuse to see this. They refuse to recognize the difference between means and ends. I wonder if this guy would object to a surgeon performing a surgery because it involves wielding a knife and cutting stuff up.

[u-89]

Nothing wrong with using the military against al Qaida but drawing up a list of 6 or 8 countries to invade and rebuild is extremely foolish - not to mention trying to redefine a culture by force.

BTW the Nazis found out the hard way that they could not conquer terroism with the military. For every one they killed there was always at least one who took their place.

[MJY1288]

"Terrorism is the result of political problems.

What kind of Horse sh*t is this?, Terrorsim is an act of violence against innocent people that must be answered with swift justice, or it will never stop.

" They can not be solved with the military."

Tell that to the families of those killed on 9/11, but before you do, allow me to buy a life insurance policy on you

"Pursuing war for economic gain, personal advancement or spreading ideology is a crime and a sin."

I sure hope your talking about the Muslims who refuse to tollerate any other religion but their own? If not! you are clueless

[TexasRepublic]

Robert Higgs needs his ass kicked.

[u-89]

Economic interaction has always led to golden eras. The history of the 20th century is compounding the failures of faulty policy with more of the same. The results were bloodshed and confusion that has not been settled to this day.

[u-89]

Do you trust people who use words like "global hegemony", "new world order" and "Pax Americana?"

[MJY1288]

I don't trust people who believe political problems are to blame for terrorism

[u-89]

The US was the only country that resorted to war to end slavery. BTW that war was over secession - letting sovereign states determine their own course or enforcing a union through conquest.

W.W.I brought on communism and nazism. W.W.II enable communism to grow strong in the USSR and spread, ensuring the cold war. WWII's policy of unconditional surrender meant we had to conquer and occupy a land rather than merely defeating an army. Thus we had to rebuild and defend the conquered lands. BTW we are still there and even expanding our jurisdiction - recipes for more wars.

[LS]

I know Higgs. He used to be sensible. Don't know what happened over the years, but CLUE: terrorism is specifically fought by military power. All the good will, free trade, and lollipops he and anyone else want to give out have no effect on these Islamofascists.