Nick Gillespie: After Decades of Failure, Let’s Try a Libertarian Foreign Policy

As Dick Cheney, Hillary
Clinton, John McCain, and others who oversaw America’s disastrous
foreign policy in the 21st century attack anyone who suggests
things haven’t gone well, Nick Gillespie asks: “What would be a
better foreign policy than what we’ve seen over the past 14 or so
years?”

It’s tempting to say, Anything, anything
at all. Certainly, at least this much makes immediate
sense: The United States should in fact withdraw militarily for
good from Iraq and Afghanistan, especially if those countries’
governments implore us to do so. And there are allies in both
regions that we should continue to support not just morally, but
materially and militarily.

All large-scale and long-term military engagements should
actually be put to a specific congressional vote as dictated both
by the Constitution and by common sense. The use of military force
should be governed not by a set of infinitely expandable terms such
as ensuring human rights and expanding democracy, but far narrower
and less grandiose ideals of national defense.

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