The Cost Of War
by Vince Daliessio
We are aware, of course, that when one signs up for military service, at least in America, one does so freely and voluntarily, for now. And compared to, say, the meatgrinder of Vietnam,the 2000-odd servicepeople that have died in the two major military campaigns of the Bush Administration seems like a "manageable" number of casualties, given the "rightness" of our interventions in the Middle East, doesn't it?;
http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html
(link from www.antiwar.com)
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Jim Powell is invaluable too.
Yeah, I agree. CATO has become a mere shell of its former self. The old-heads like Ed Crane, David Boaz and Roger Pilon can maybe still be called libertarians but the newer bunch cannot. They sweat the details of how to sytematically regress from Iraq and how to administer a school voucher program when at the end of the day, those things hand even more power to the federal government and should simply be abolished outright. And they know if they're too hard on policy in general, they won't attract influential speakers from inside the beltway who live off those programs. And the way the swing from Milton Friedman's wang! Maybe being in Washington has finally gotten to CATO. I remember asking Steve Moore why he took a "must hate France" tack a while back and he couldn't produce a coherent answer. I stopped contributing since.
Thanks Yana! CATO has, in the past anyway, been an invaluable resource on just about every issue important to liberty, but the senior people in D.C. (the Palmers and the Cranes) seem to have become tainted by the very institution they claim to criticize, at least when it comes to Iraq. So although their objective analysis has been invaluable, their opinions require viewing skeptically.
A reminder that a lot of very thorough studies, analyses and papers regarding the Iraq war and other issues of interest to libertarian-leaning folk can be found at www.cato.org Cato is the libertarian think tank founded in 1977 and has a long list of thousands of books, papers, monographs, studies, etc., that are useful for everyone interested in individual liberty, limited government and the (truly) free market.
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