Yep, you can thank Harry Browne for that. He's the biggest antiwar activist right now. Many of my Austin Libertarian friends are out there marching with the AntiWar Socialists these day. They're an embarrassment.
They're reasoning is that WAR tends to take liberties away from citizens.
BULL!
SOME 'Libertarians' are extremely fearful of emergency Federal powers; most 'libertarians' strongly believe the chief function of government is to protect citizens from violence, and that the destruction of Al-Qaeda and its sponsors is a perfectly legitimate exercise of U.S. state power and will.
The libertarian impulse, or tradition, in American public life should be honored, not calumniated.
Not one libertarian I know is a 'moslem apologist'. My anecdotal evidence is at least as valid as yours.