John Stossel: Libertarians Aren’t Isolationists, We’re Realistic

Both libertarians and conservatives want to keep
America safe, though we differ on how best to do that. Most
libertarians believe that attempts to create or support democracy
around the world have made us new enemies and done harm as well as
good. Some conservatives respond to that by calling us weak and
delusional isolationists.

But libertarians do want America to participate in the world, we
just don’t want to run it, writes John Stossel. If it’s realistic
to acknowledge that America has dangerous enemies, it’s also
realistic to acknowledge that going to war is not always worth the
loss of money and lives. War, like most government plans,
tends not to work out as well as planners hoped. 

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