War As Short Sharp Regime-Leadership Hunting-Season.

This thread is to do with what ought to be the war-making policy of libertarians. A disturbingly millenarianist-pacifist strain has cropped up in libertarian thinking. This libertarian thought is not-in-keeping with the libertarian idea of the basic inherent potential-evil of governments everywhere.

From Catallaxy:

Its very disturbing when you have alleged libertarians going with convenient leftist lies to rubbish someone like George Bush.

There are plenty of TRUE things to be irritated at Bush-The-Younger about without adding to leftist/jihadist war-propaganda.

Bush is basically a decent and far-looking character who was nevertheless overwhelmed by the time it came around to mid-2003. Prior to that, aside from the excessive spending, he had been doing quite a good job. I put him as being about equivalent to Truman. And both characters started off doing a fine job at first and wound up being out of their element within a few years.

The libertarians of this ilk claimed that Bush the Younger lied about WMD. They went along with the ridiculous process of whitewashing Saddam and the other dictatorships of involvement with terrorism in general and 9/11 specifically.
All this because they are anti-war.

But a libertarian society would have to realise that its free status would bring it immense resentment in the world.
And being as it would be a country with a regime far less predatory then all the others it would have an even stronger duty to protect its citizens from the violations to their sovereignty on the part of third-party-regimes.

We have not even yet developed clear property-titles for the evolution of INFRASTRUCTURAL goods. If we haven’t sorted even that side of things out yet we are decades away from privatised defense. We are decades away even if we started trying to get some private firms involved in policing tommorrow.

For people who are always emphasising the evil part of the necessary-but-evil creature that is government………. Its a clear mental block on the part of libertarians to be weak on defense.

A libertarian ought to instead adopt policies which imply that war is basically a regime-to-regime conflict. And to therefore emphasise policies which involve war being a short, sharp period of punishing individuals within a foreign regime and getting back home, as quickly as possible.

WAR AS REGIME-PUNISHMENT is the logical expression of libertarian thinking.
The idea is to PUNISH and get back home and gear up for another hunting season. Its the after-punishment-gearing-up that solidifies the peace.

But to get back home quickly in order to work with extreme focus, on making their own society freer.

Because there is enourmous work to do in that department and we can take back-sliding for granted and in this way the work ought to be considered basically endless.

Its this latter misunderstanding that makes such libertarians of this ilk so dangerous.
The misunderstanding involves the wrong idea that we assume we are working for a specific date when we will have a libertarian society. And then after that we won’t have to work at it any more.

This breed of libertarians… because they seem to think that there will be a specific date where freedom will be acheived… libertarians like this are basically millenarian-utopians.

The ubiquitous presence of this sort of millenarian-libertarian would set up a libertarian-left coalition on many issues that, for one thing, would reject the updating of our airforce to include the Raptor.

They would bring on a catastrophic war by failing to overturn the lefts penchant for make-believe in foreign policy.

Make-believe that is oftentimes perversely referred to as “realism”.

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