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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tsigprofit who wrote (13234)	2/26/2003 12:23:09 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 25898

guess we agree to disagree then, LPS5. That's okay, I'm no stranger to disagreement. :-) You're right. I have some libertarian beliefs, but believe the free market needs to be tempered by govt. policies in some cases. Where force and fraud are evident; that's pretty much it, from where I stand. You are probably a big fan of the Cato Institute. They have their moments. I'm not in agreement with all their policies. I agree with some of their ideas also - but not all. Cool. I understand they are against the Iraq war. I would think many pure libertarians would be, as it is "govt. intervention" on a broad scale. We will now take on the role of rebuilding Iraq, which will require money - either borrowed from the US, or printed. What's strange - and has weakened the credibility of the Libertarian party, in this member's mind - is that for the longest time the party has refused to take a position on both (a) the death penalty and (b) abortion, thinking that to do so would be to tear the party asunder. And yet, at this point, I hear certain prominent Libertarians saying things to the effect of, "if you support an attack of Iraq, you're not a Libertarian." Interesting. As I - and a few other Libertarians, to be sure - see it, attacking Iraq is, if nothing else, long overdue. At the very least, subject to debate and worthy of disagreement. Isn't it odd that the luminaries of a party holding freedom so highly would set so rigid a position about a topic that complex? But on the other hand...where the death penalty and abortion are concerned, well...that, to me, is where the true test is; where the free-market rubber meets the objectivist road. :-) LPS5