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Re: Libertarians and War

Jim, your line of rhetorical questioning rings true to me. Wrestling with this meme, I’ve argued today that cries of ‘overreach’, like hindsight, are often 20/20. Libertarians, liberals, and conservatives alike probably would all still be cheering for the occupation of Iraq if a robust global coalition had done its duty under international law and coercively enforced 1441. Right?

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Law, Iraq

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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.

http://spectator.org/blog/2007/11/28/re-libertarians-and-war

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