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foreign aid as well. In the United States, the Libertarian Party opposes strategic alliances between the United States and foreign nations.[3]

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American empire which needed war to sustain itself and to expand its global control.[4][5] Rothbard said: "Our entry into World War II was the crucial act in foisting a permanent militarization upon the economy and society, in bringing to the country a permanent garrison state, an overweening military–industrial complex, a permanent system of conscription".[6] This tradition is continued in the anti-war analysis of the Cato Institute's David Boaz[7] and former Representative Ron Paul.[8]

Some libertarians have criticized

2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupations.[9][10] However, others like Randy Barnett[11] and John Hospers[12] supported the Iraq War. In 2010, the Libertarian Party criticized conservatives for supporting a "trillion-dollar foreign war".[13]

Some libertarians also criticize from a libertarian perspective the actions of foreign governments like Saudi Arabia[14] and Israel. In "War Guilt in the Middle East", Rothbard details Israel's "aggression against Middle East Arabs", confiscatory policies and its "refusal to let these refugees return and reclaim the property taken from them".[15] Rothbard also criticized the "organized Anti-Anti-Semitism" that critics of the state of Israel have to suffer.[16] In "Property Rights and the 'Right of Return'", professor Richard Ebeling writes: "If a settlement is reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians, justice would suggest that all legitimate property should be returned to its rightful owners and that residence by those owners on their property should be once again permitted".[17] In "The Alienation of a Homeland: How Palestine Became Israel", attorney Stephen P. Halbrook writes: "Palestinian Arabs have the rights to return to their homes and estates taken over by Israelis, to receive just compensation for loss of life and property, and to exercise national self-determination".[18]

Even though the writers behind Ayn Rand Institute and Ayn Rand Lexicon define themselves as Objectivists and are more often opposed to libertarians,[19] large minorities of right-libertarians, mainly in the United states, use aspects of Ayn Rand's Objectivism[20] to justify their foreign policy beliefs on the right of defense. A very common view on dictatorship among these is the view that a dictatorial society is an outlaw that can claim no rights and that any free society has a right to forcibly change any dictatorial society into another free one, but should absolutely not assume this to be any kind of self-sacrificial duty.[21] When it comes to broader American foreign policy, these libertarians believe that the crux of American foreign policy should be free trade, including abolition of protectionism as a corporatist element.[22] Many libertarians will argue from perspectives most associated with Ayn Rand Institute to justify siding with Israel over the Arab League,[23] regarding the war that the Arab League launched against Israel in 1948. Some libertarians will use Objectivist arguments to criticize the tendency of many of their own to focus on trivial crimes by free societies instead of severe crimes by tyrannical societies.[24]

the Afghan War over opposing quick end, more with friendliness to China over hostility, are evenly split over trade deals, side more with opposing the United Nations over supporting them and more with seeing Islam as Earth's most tyrannical organized religion over seeing some other religion as such.[26] It has also been found in both years' reports that nearly all libertarians oppose privacy compromises like the Patriot Act. Distinguishing military policy from foreign policy, one will find that libertarian views on foreign policy are almost evenly divided between those who are more often diplomatic and those who are more often militant. A nearly half minority (48%) believe that the best way for American military to ensure peace on earth is to stay the strongest military of Earth, and an identically sized minority also think that the best way to defeat a terroristic ideology is to overwhelmingly and militarily crush that ideology on its soil.[27]

See also

References

  1. Ludwig von Mises Institute
    , 2007.
  2. ISBN 0-520-21714-4
    , 215-237.
  3. ^ "Foreign Policy". Libertarian Party. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  4. ^ Joseph R. Stromberg, Murray N. Rothbard on States, War, and Peace: Part I (also see Part II), Antiwar.com, originally published June 2000.
  5. LewRockwell.com; and Rothbard on War, excerpts from a 1973 Reason Magazine article and other materials, published at Antiwar.com
    , undated.
  6. LewRockwell.com
    .
  7. ISBN 0-684-84767-1
  8. LewRockwell.com
    , January 6, 2009.
  9. Huffington Post, available at Cato Institute
    website, added March 16, 2010.
  10. LewRockwell.com
    , July 23, 2007.
  11. ^ Barnett, Randy E. (17 July 2007). "Libertarians and the War". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  12. ^ "John Hospers obituary". the Guardian. 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  13. ^ Libertarians criticize CPAC conservatives, United States Libertarian Party press release, February 18, 2010.
  14. ISBN 978-1-930865-39-6
  15. ^ Murray Rothbard, War Guilt in the Middle East, "Left and Right", Vol. 3 No. 3 (Autumn 1967) (cited here.)
  16. LewRockwell.com
    .
  17. ^ Richard Ebeling, "Property Rights and the 'Right of Return'" http://www.fff.org/comment/com0305o.asp Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 26, 2003.
  18. Journal of Libertarian Studies
    , Vol. V, No. 4, Fall 1981.
  19. ^ ""Libertarians"". Ayn Rand Lexicon. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  20. ^ "Ayn Rand at 100". Cato Institute. 2005-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  21. ^ "Dictatorship". Ayn Rand Lexicon. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  22. ^ "Foreign Policy". Ayn Rand Lexicon. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  23. ^ "Israel Has a Moral Right to Its Life". Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  24. ^ "To YB: Why are so many Libertarians anti-Israel? « Featured Podcast « Peikoff". www.peikoff.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  25. ^ "In search of libertarians". Pew Research Center. 2014-08-25. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  26. ^ "Section 9: Foreign Policy and National Security". Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  27. ^ "Section 2: Value Divides Within Party Coalitions". Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
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