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Foreign-policy realists and relative noninterventionists, among others, want to commit Americans to offshore balancing, an idea drawn from various English political-economic sources. After the Glorious Revolution (1688) securing the Protestant succession, influential English statesmen sought to make European balance-keeping central to their foreign strategy. Another view, deducible from 19th-century British practice (and formally called Hegemonic Stability Theory), wants the leading power of the day to impose free trade as a global “public good.” This self-justifying mission also entails someone’s keeping some sort of Balance. Most writers nominate the United States as world balancer.
For some writers, imperial freedom floats all boats (and not just the capitalists’). They thank hegemonic powers for liberalism itself, asserting that imperial naval (or air) power deployed overseas leaves domestic liberalism unharmed. By contrast, standing armies are said to threaten domestic liberty. Yet embracing imperial means, we might expect very thin liberalism indeed; with Machiavelli’s “republic for increase” walking the earth, we might at least speak ...
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.
The aftermath of the OKC bombing in 1995 was very similar to what occurred after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Immediately after the OKC bombing, libertarians raised the issue of motivation. Let’s examine what motivated Timothy McVeigh to commit this bombing, we said.
That was the last thing U.S. officials and many Americans, especially conservatives, wanted people to consider. Attempting to suppress any discussion of motivation, they did their best to intimidate libertarians into silence with such cries as, “You’re a defender and a justifier! You’re just defending and justifying what McVeigh did.”
Of course, it was the same sort of reaction after the 9/11 attacks. When we raised the question of motivation after those attacks, here at FFF we were absolutely flooded with email and regular mail, accusing us of being defenders and justifiers of the terrorists and ...
