Many libertarians naturally oppose the wars of the state and the excuses it gives for them–but not all. The principled anti-war, anti-state, pro-freedom, pro-individual, pro-rights stance of LewRockwell.com, Anti-State.com, AntiWar.com, the Independent Institute, et al. is being attacked from other erstwhile libertarians, e.g. Brink Lindsey, Cato‘s Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Virginia Postrel (see Postrel’s 4/4/02 post on “Libertarian Isolationists”; see David Gordon’s brilliant review of Postrel’s “stasist/dynamist” thesis), and ex(?)-Objectivist writer David Brown, of FEE/Laissez Faire Books (not to mention assorted neocons, globalist hawks, and their ilk). The attacks are variously ridiculous, disingenous, ignorant, and downright embarrasing to their authors. Shame. ‘Nuff said.
The Postrel piece is here – http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/2002/apr01.html.
“Those questions are a lot harder to take seriously from people who hate America —or encourage those who do—and who dream of a static, stateless utopia.”
How can a stateless society be static? She must love ever changing government. How utopian!