Liberventionists Were Wrong 20 Years Ago. They’re Still Wrong. by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2021 Twenty years ago, liberventionists (i.e., libertarians who favor foreign interventionism) were jumping on the Republican-Democrat bandwagon that was calling for invading Afghanistan. The few of us who were opposing the invasion were holding lonely ground. Those were difficult days for FFF. We were losing donors, subscribers, and even a member of our board of trustees — those who ...
The Afghanistan Debacle: A Huge Opportunity for Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2021 Opportunities to make a big advances toward liberty don’t come very often. The Afghanistan debacle provides a huge opportunity to do that. One option, of course, is to make the case that the Afghanistan invasion and occupation were mismanaged. In other words, the case for reforming America’s system of foreign interventionism. That’s the wrong approach. That’s not ...
Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder? Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2021 One August 9, I wrote a blog post entitled “Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder?” in which I pointed out, Just because a police officer might be scared of retaliation for killing a citizen is no reason to keep his identity and his version of events secret.The criminal justice system doesn’t operate like that. ...
An Evil Rationalization on Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger September 15, 2021 One of the arguments that interventionists, including many U.S. military veterans, use to rationalize the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan is that U.S. forces were fighting to bring “freedom, democracy, and women’s rights” to the country. In fact, the Pentagon even coined the term “Operation Enduring Freedom” as one of the ways to justify the invasion and occupation of ...
Crocodile Tears for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2021 Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to ...
Public-School Reform Follies by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2021 I couldn’t help but smile and shake my head this morning as I read two articles about public-schooling reform in California. Both appeared in the Los Angeles Times. One is an editorial taking the California recall election candidates to task for not coming up with a reform plan that will finally — finally! — fix California’s ...
The Blame Game is On by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2021 The blame game in the Afghanistan debacle is now in full swing. Most of the critics are blaming President Biden for the debacle. For them, he has become the Scapegoat in Chief. Others are blaming Trump and Obama, the former for cutting a deal with the Taliban to end the 20-year U.S. occupation and the latter for his ...
The Ballot-Barrier Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger August 30, 2021 For many years now, the Republican and Democrat parties have enacted and enforced an array of rules and restrictions on the ability of third-party candidates to run for public office. The nature of the restrictions varies from state to state, but the most notable of them involves petitioning requirements. Third-party candidates are required to secure the signatures of ...
The U.S. Government vs. the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger August 27, 2021 Advocates of empire and interventionism are saying that even given the debacle in Afghanistan, America should not “retreat” from the world. Even though our nation has lost "credibility" in the world, they say, it is imperative that the United States continue to project power and influence around the world. To do otherwise, they say, would create a “vacuum” ...
The Evil and Cynicism of Federal Foreign “Donations” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 26, 2021 Vice President Harris went to Vietnam this week, where she announced the pending delivery of a “donation” of two million vaccine doses to that communist regime. Apparently the idea is to show how good, caring, and benevolent the U.S. government is. Now, don’t be cynical. This “donation” has absolutely nothing to do with the U.S. ...
An Old Soldier’s Denial on Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2021 In a letter to the Los Angeles Times regarding the Afghanistan debacle, Stephen Sloane, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy who served in the Vietnam War, is a perfect demonstration of how so many people, especially in the military, live lives of denial when it comes to foreign interventionism. Addressing Marines who served ...
Will The JFK Assassination Cover-Up Continue in October? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 24, 2021 After President Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Secret Service, for some reason, deemed it necessary to keep their records and activities relating to the assassination secret from the American people. "National security,” they said, which didn’t seem to make much sense given the official scenario that a lone-nut communist former U.S Marine had killed the ...
