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Originally Posted by Kitsune
...and yet, so many Libertarians leans towards a party that openly shreds the constitution, supports an illegal war and involvement outside the borders, allows the country to bleed away tax dollars, etc, etc.
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Well, Kits, I am unpersuaded that the Republican Party is actually shredding any part of the Constitution, openly or covertly. The arguments presented for this idea satisfy the anti-Republicans, but no objective observer. The war is not only quite legal (except to anti-Republicans of a fringey nature), it is by definition right: it is being fought by democracy against dictatorship. It is inherently impossible for this to be wrongful. It might be destructive, it might be expensive and push up the national debt, it might be widely lethal.
So was World War Two. I fear, Kits, that your misapplied partisanship will forever make the concept of just war, known and understood by Christians anyway since St. Augustine of Hippo, something unknown to you. Fortunately, my vision is not so blurred.
Nor am I an isolationist, either -- it's unsustainable, and there's no going back to it in this day and age. American isolationism enjoyed a privileged existence for a century and a half or so, for most of that time because of the British Royal Navy's putting up a barrier other nations that might have been inclined to meddle in the Western Hemisphere found insuperable. Isolationism also worked better when the fastest way of moving anything, goods, people, or information, was the sailing ship at about five knots. The steamship and the transoceanic telegraph cable began to erode its viability, and the Roosevelt Administration was far-sighted enough to abandon isolationism around the turn of the
last century. I am persuaded they were wise to do so.
So anyway, the Republicans, for all their manifold sins and wickedness (and these will happen to the Libertarian Party too, once it's actually responsible to make and execute policy to any large degree), are occasionally a lot nearer libertarianism in not only their thinking but also their doing than the entire pack of icky socialists clogging the arteries of the Jackass Party ever will be until they kick the socialists out and themselves embrace libertarianism. (Memo to self: Continue, do not interrupt, respiration.)