War and Foreign Policy

Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 12 October 2007, in New York City.

Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 12 October 2007, in New York City.

The drive of the New Deal toward war once again reshuffled the ideological spectrum and the meaning of Left and Right in American politics.

Of course Podhoretz's argument is wrong: it does not follow from the instability of a government that a successor regime can be easily established.

Greenwald's argument is a simple one: Because of the overwhelming military might of the United States, no other country can attack us without facing utter destruction. 

Norman Podhoretz, an eminent authority on the novels of Norman Mailer, has for decades postured as an expert in foreign policy as well.

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No person or group of people is without value — not even those whom our own government chooses to label the enemy.

How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq.

Suppose that Iran got a nuclear bomb. Would it be of any use to it? Let’s say the US attacks Iran and kills half of its population.