Archive for interventionism
Another war?
Posted by: |Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.
Tags: interventionism, Libya, violence, war
News of the Week: Japan and Libya
Posted by: |Recapping the interesting and noteworthy events of the past week.
Over the last seven days, Japan has seen a terrible natural disaster and another country in the Middle East was bombed by the United States. Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama ordered missile strikes on Libya, supposedly to protect civilians.
Here is the speech he made before the act of aggression.
This is just one more instance showing that Obama is just Bush #3. Isn’t it interesting how the US never calls for a no-fly zone when Israel bombs Palestinian civilians? (HT David Kramer.)
Can we please get back to a foreign policy that does NOT involve policing the world and starting endless wars?
Tags: interventionism, Japan, Libya, middle east, natural disasters, war
Progressives Against Progress
Posted by: |This article is #14 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct ways.
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another. Don’t get us wrong: we are for progress — for economic growth, wealth creation, and the elimination of poverty — but we understand that progress grows from voluntary interactions and respect of individual rights. That which violates the rights of individuals cannot be progress.
Tags: economics, free market, interventionism, memes, public schools, universal health care
The Deadly Cost of Interventionism
Posted by: |For many years, Christians all across America have sincerely believed that the Federal Government and the military need to “promote freedom” through active aggression against other nations – this is the philosophy of “interventionism.” I once numbered among those supporters. Eventually, I realized how flawed this view truly was, and how this philosophy is responsible for so much needless, fruitless violence against the innocent.
The history of America’s interventions in the Middle East is fraught with blunder, murder, lies, destruction, and chaos. It is completely embarrassing to think that the United States Government is responsible for so much of the Middle East’s problems and the problems we have today with terrorism and America’s reputation, but it is unequivocally true. The days of American “innocence” are over, and this history must be accepted because the facts are clear. Whether or not the government learns from this history to stop meddling in the affairs of other nations has yet to be seen. I doubt that we will see a shift in foreign policy anytime soon. However, if we libertarian Christians learn what happened back then, perhaps we can expose the lie of interventionism to our brethren and make a difference in Christendom today.
The next time you are conversing with someone who thinks that interventionism is necessary, tell them of this history. Arm yourself with knowledge, and it will bring truth to light.
Tags: history, interventionism, war, war on terror
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