[Urbane Guerrilla]

I'm sure you can doubt as you see fit; I however continue to applaud our campaigns in the overall War as steps in a more libertarian direction for social orders that frankly haven't had any libertarianism yet -- which state of affairs I abominate beyond all abomination. I've never heard why you don't share that view. Switching straight from an autocracy to full-on libertarianism, in no time, nor with any systematic transitional steps -- what do you think the likely outcome of trying that one would be?

I think it would mean instant civil war until one side or the other was pretty much shot out. Awfully chancy, not to mention the waste and destruction. As it is, with the more modest political change we're trying to help grow, we've still got civil war and alarming developments. And, well, we've got to expect waste and destruction and to decide how much we're willing to accept en route to a great liberation. You know how much value I set on liberty, and how much I think it would benefit foreign folks whose ways are different from our own.

A certain fellow whose books I like sums it up as "the engine can't move any faster than the caboose."

Meanwhile, there's the question of what it's going to take to spread libertarianism and libertarian social orders across the globe. I don't think very many Libertarian Party members have thought about this. Certain of them, seeing me thinking about it, are moved to complain, and advocate a wimping out instead of a propagation. This is commitment??