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Jonathan Trager br> Washington, D.C. /p> p> John Tabin replies: br> The Libertarian Party's fantasy of a foreign policy that stops at the edge of the beach would be alien to John Quincy Adams, who as Secretary of State authored the Monroe Doctrine, and even to Thomas Jefferson, who sent the U.S. Navy to the Mediterranean to fight the Tripolitan War against the Barbary pirate states. (Harry Browne has written, in reference to the War of 1812, that the government had no business in defending American ships during this period because "private companies had chosen to send those ships into foreign waters, and were responsible for the safety of their employees.") /p>

As Mr. Trager has in the past pondered how to correct the LP's "marketing problem," might I suggest that taming the impulse to denounce any deviation from a radical orthodoxy as unlibertarian would be a good place to start?

p> FROM BAD TO WORSE br> Re: George Neumayr's Keller Makes Things Worse : /p>

What a bunch of two-faced political flacks masquerading as journalists.

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