I'm having a hard time imagining anyone winning the nomination right now.
Rudy Giuliani is an authoritarian asshole
Who cares how he governs at home? The point is, he's the only candidate with the balls to take the fight, and democracy, to the enemy. I have never understood how anyone can claim to be 'libertarian' at home and yet effectively support totalitarianism abroad by opposing foreign intervention. That's the worst kind of hypocrisy.
A true Libertarian would neither support nor attempt to overthrow a dictator abroad. During wars is when the most freedoms are lost, if you were to look at it on a graph. Also, I would presume that a Libertarian would support the preservation of life (and no, I'm not referring to abortion), so lives can easily be saved on both sides by not getting into a war. It is not hypocritical for a Libertarian to be supportive of non-intervention abroad, in fact, I would think that the opposite would be true. A genuine Libertarian knows that, by definition, you cannot spread freedom through the barrel of a gun.
1. Show me a graph of the freedoms won/lost worldwide through the Civil War WWII and its aftermath.
2. How many lives were saved by delaying or avoiding interventions in Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Sudan?
3. But I must concede, military solutions have utterly failed in securing American independece; in ending Southern slavery, the Holocaust, and the gulag archipelago; or in bringing democracy to Germany, Italy or Japan. I guess freedom doesn't flow from the barrel of the gun.
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