{"id":1516,"date":"2004-12-04T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-04T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-04T13:37:31","slug":"i-never-thought-id-have-to-write-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/04\/i-never-thought-id-have-to-write-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Thought I’d Have to Write This"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m wary of people who pick the worst among their opponents to “prove” the superiority of their own position. I won’t say Viktor Yushchenko is an anti-Semite just because this nut<\/a> believes in a kosher conspiracy (literally)<\/a>. I won’t say National Review<\/i> is full of Nazis just because this Nazi echoes their sentiments perfectly<\/a>. And I won’t say all neoconservatives\/pro-war “libertarians” should be drummed out of the league of halfway decent humans just because one of them should. <\/p>\n

But the aforementioned one is not exactly on the fringe of pro-war thought. In fact, he’s a program director<\/a> at the Institute for Humane Studies, a major mainstream libertarian organization<\/a>. His standard approach to foreign-policy matters goes as follows:<\/p>\n

(1) make assertions so outrageously stupid and\/or vicious that they far surpass the worst caricatures of right-wingers; <\/p>\n

(2) whine that those who either recoil in horror or laugh their asses off aren’t addressing his arguments.<\/p>\n

His latest libertarian argument?<\/p>\n