Reclaiming America will require libertarians to get real about foreign policy.
The Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and the World Trade Center attack in 2001 prove America cannot just be endlessly kind to everyone and not get assaulted.
With so many people still being rather upset about Donald Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States, libertarians could potentially replace him and his cabinet with themselves after his first term. But in order to represent most Americans' legitimate concerns about foreign policy & national defense and therefore defeat Trump in 2020, libertarians need to reject all of Just War Theory and create a foreign policy that reflects valid foreign relations & national defense concerns of normal people.
Libertarians rightly assert that free trade and open immigration are inherently better than war at spreading libertarian culture aka Western culture, but as a libertarian Independent myself I guarantee we also need to assert as I do that US military presence overseas has always been mandatory to making sure free trade and open immigration the planetary normal. And yes, given the worst aspects of human nature and the fact that none of them will ever go away, US military presence overseas will always be required for keeping trade and immigration the world order.
Here's a history lesson that the entire Libertarian Party knowingly and willfully overlooks that only a minority of libertarian Democrats, of libertarian Republicans and of my fellow libertarian Independents can bring themselves to ignore.
After the end of World War Two, America got together with Britain and Canada and in the case of the Pacific Theater, Australia. What exactly America did with these honest friends it had (and still has) was draft Western-cultured constitutions for their defeated enemies (Germany, Italy and Japan at the time) to adopt as the eternal terms of their unconditional surrender. After this the US as a classically liberal forces brought a majority of its troops home but left behind a few thousand, just enough to oversee the opening of free trade and freedom of movement with the former enemies. After seven decades of oversight, and still overseeing, the US military has overseen mutually beneficial free trade and free migration leading to a beautiful Italy, a very creative Japan who I myself have infinite respect for, and a much more thoughtful Germany.
Similar ordeal with South Korea in the Cold War. After the end of the Korean War, and even though this end was stalemate, the US military brought a majority of survivor troops home and left behind, once again, just enough to oversee the creation of an outstanding South Korea. Even today, South Korea has given me my current dishwasher that always makes me proud to live in the Digital Age.
Allowed to be itself, the rest of the world around America becomes deadly to merely exist in.
Saudi Arabia's $43.5 billion per year in forcing Salafi Empire ideology onto the world, Iran's obsession for knowingly breaking Nuke deal rules, Pakistan's love for endorsing Salafi militias like the Taliban, and other behaviors by other Islamic Theocracies in the Greater Midddle East openly prove that America's Digital Age rivals have no interest whatsoever in nurturing free trade & open immigration. But every single development regarding every one of those theocracies is evidence that these have all the interest in the world in exporting tyrannical and genocidal ideology across the globe.
More US MIlitary Strength means more World Peace
All the "bring the troops home" rhetoric I hear from most of my fellow libertarians is inherently shortsighted, as it fails to recognize the necessity US military oversight has been to nurturing the opening of trade and travel in various foreign areas.
Tactically setting up US military bases on overseas properties owned by America's fellow free societies allows the US military themselves to respond quickly and effeciently when a war of self-defense or defense of others is becoming warranted. If we had to fly our troops an average of 6500 miles to bring out retribution against iniatory aggression by just one of those theocracies in the Greater Middle East, we'd be far more wasteful and efficient than any libertarian can claim we are now. To explain what I am even talking about, let me give an example.
If Iran was plotting to destroy the OECD friends America still manages to have in both Israel anf Turkey, then the US military would be able to go stop Iran after just a 1500 mile flight in both cases, and quickly and effieciently save not one but two of its economic friends (OECD is an economic institution that's all about nothing but free enterprise). The average US military troop carrier flies 500 miles per hour, thus taking three hours is tactically better than taking thirteen. Save our troops ten hours that way.
Don't misrepresent human nature OR human history
Do not get me wrong, the United States should not be militarily engaged in all conflicts at all times, and should absolutely not be waging wars of aggression or liberation wars. Instead the US military should only go to war if there is a Declaration by Congress, and even then only so far as to use retaliatory, defensive, or preventive force for the purpose of defending the lives of human beings from genocide or from terrorism. Regime Change, Democracy Promotion, and War for Oil control (like Hillary Clinton wanted to do but cannot as she did not win the general election) undermine American security and blind the US government to its own constitutional self-interests as declared in the Preamble. For this reason, I find libertarians to be wise for them opposing wars of regime change or of oil monopoly. And indeed, the targeting of secular tyrannies in the Greater Middle East for the sake of building an oil monopoly has indeed blinded presidents Bush Jr. as well as Obama to what the Preamble implies America's national interests are.
But as libertarians we must not automatically discount the idea of fighting back against the theocratic statist regimes in a way that exposes Just War Theory as the antithesis of Libertarian National Defense. Instead we must reach out to everyday America's legit concerns about world affairs in ways that do not contradict the founding principles of libertarianism, which by the way are:
- Civil Liberty
- Political Freedom
- Western Democracy
- Rule of Law
- Economic Freedom
- Natural Rights
- Work Ethic
- The Sciences
In conclusion, I predict almost the entire LP will knowingly misinterpret this article, just as they have proven themselves incapable of learning from experience for as long as they have lived. From rejecting Austin Petersen in the LP nomination for 2016 to censoring Pro-Defense opinions on foreign policy all over social media, there is no future for the LP and thus all of the above is my advise to libertarians like me who are Independent voters. Thanks everyone,
~Kyle P.
PS there is a question to be asked at the end of this early-bird (I promised my subscribers I'd only blog every Sunday, the day of this entry is a Friday where I am): How can myself and other libertarian Independents channel a foreign and defense policy Doctrine that knocks every single issue per category out of the park and hits a home run in the eyes of majorities of the average American commoner?