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To: okie01
Your comments proving, once again, the old adage: you can lead a Populist to the truth, but you can't make him drink

I can live with that label. I'm a live and let live kind of guy though, so libertarian would be closer to the truth. (OK I voted for Bush and I am a Republican - but that doesn't obligate me to support their policies when they do something stupid.)

20 posted on 09/21/2002 2:49:17 PM PDT by joeyman
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To: joeyman
"...so libertarian would be closer to the truth. (OK I voted for Bush and I am a Republican - but that doesn't obligate me to support their policies when they do something stupid.)"

No, you're not obligated to support stupid policies.

But, as a libertarian, you are obligated to think through your characterization of them as stupid. How would a libertarian deal with the current threat, as you yourself described it?

"But I thought they [the terrorists] were already here, their sleeper cells are already here, their weapons of mass destruction are already here.

"If those facts are true (and I believe they are, specficially since every govt spokemans who talks about this issue says, "It's not if but when...) then regardless of what we do over there...we will reap the whirlwind."

Let us start afresh. Please, sir, what is the libertarian solution to this dilemma? By all means, let us hear it.

25 posted on 09/21/2002 3:03:11 PM PDT by okie01
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