Foreign Policy & War

Bully of the Playground: How Washington Makes Enemies Abroad and Undermines Freedom at Home

by Ted Galen Carpenter November 30, 2007

On June 4, 2007, Ted Galen Carpenter gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Legal Idiocy and the War on Terror (video)

by Joseph Margulies November 9, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Joseph Margulies gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

I Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Part 2

by James Glaser November 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The Tomah VA Medical Center sits on 173 acres in west central Wisconsin. The PTSD unit there was about 300 miles from my home, and it was a long trip driving down there thinking hard all ...

Busy Bush Has Time to Run the World

by Sheldon Richman October 29, 2007

President Bush has been a busy man. Even though the quagmire in Iraq threatens to worsen as Turkey prepares to invade the Kurdish north, Bush has time to undertake the arduous task of preventing World War III and begin the transition to democracy in Cuba. How does he do it?! The president is on ...

War, Foreign Policy, and Empire: The Changing Political Dynamic

by Anthony Gregory October 26, 2007

On June 3, 2007, Anthony Gregory gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Anthony Gregory is a Policy Advisor for the Future of Freedom Foundation, a guest editor at Strike the Root, a blogger at Liberty and Power and the Stress Blog, and a ...

War as Government Program

by Sheldon Richman October 19, 2007

On June 3, 2007, Sheldon Richman gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Iran and Iraq: The Need for Pentagon Papers (video)

by Daniel Ellsberg October 12, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Daniel Ellsberg gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

The Failed Legacy of Interventionism

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 10, 2007

Last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader went on the attack against Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s foreign-policy views, making the standard pro-empire, pro-intervention arguments that unfortunately have come to characterize the modern-day conservative movement. (Paul’s response to the editorial is here.) Nastily referring to Paul as ...

A Foreign Policy of Peace and Freedom

by Scott McPherson October 10, 2007

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution wisely advised a path of nonintervention in the affairs of other nations. As students of history, America’s first statesmen established peace and free trade as a wiser foreign policy course over militarism, alliance-making, and empire. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, best summed up America’s ...

Why Enemies of Liberty Love Lincoln (video)

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo October 5, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Thomas J. DiLorenzo gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?

by James Bovard October 5, 2007

What is the common term for ordering soldiers to kill vast numbers of innocent people? A war crime. But not when it is done on the command of the U.S. president. Killing innocent foreigners seems to be a perk of the modern presidency — akin to the band’s playing “Hail to the Chief” when ...

A Bogus Libertarian Defense of War

by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2007

Many conservatives dubiously insist that a robustly interventionist foreign policy can coexist with a free-market domestic policy. That’s why they have no compunction about supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while claiming to support limited and unintrusive government at home. On the face of it, these seem highly incompatible. War requires the accumulation and exercise of awesome powers. ...