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A New Foreign-Policy Paradigm for America by Jacob G. Hornberger, November 2001 Ludwig von Mises observed that government intervention inexorably leads to more government intervention until the point comes that government assumes total control over the affairs of the citizenry. The idea is that since government interventions always produce perverse consequences, government officials will inevitably enact new interventions designed to fix the problems resulting from the earlier ones. The cycle repeats itself until government control becomes complete. No principle could better describe the U.S. government's long-time policy of foreign aid and foreign intervention. Over time, the perverse consequences of each new intervention have produced an ever-increasing array of new interventions designed to fix the problems resulting from the earlier ones. For example, our government's foreign policy has often included financial assistance to foreign regimes that have used the money or the weapons to oppress and brutalize their own citizens. Moreover, for decades, our government has interceded on one side or the other in conflicts ...

A Libertarian Visits Guatemala

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LAST SUMMER, I had one of the most uplifting experiences I have had in the many years that I have been advancing libertarianism. My week at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala will always rank near the top in terms of events that have charged up my batteries big-time. I had heard of FMU as far back as 1987, when I was working as program director at The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. And I have long known its founder, Manuel Ayau, who currently sits on FEE’s board of trustees. I also knew that the school had a reputation for teaching free-market principles. But I was totally unprepared for what I encountered. The college had invited me to deliver a series of lectures on libertarianism to students, professors, board members, and alumni of the college. The lectures would be given each evening and, together with discussion, would last 1 1/2 hours. Here were the topics: Monday. The nature and meaning of ...

National Conflicts, Market Liberalism and Social Peace

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For three years, civil war has caused massive death and destruction in the former Yugoslavia. Almost every day, the television evening news has broadcast pictures of devastating artillery bombardments, ruined towns and villages, and multitudes of killed and wounded men, women and children. Tens of thousands of people have been turned into refugees forced to leave their homes and belongings under the terror of war and threatened mass extermination. At international conferences, the warring factions made up of Serbians, Croatians and Bosnian Moslems have drawn lines on maps tracing out what each side views as their "legitimate" claims for control of populations and territory. The claims to territories and populations are made on the basis of "history"; either a particular area was once part of a Serbian or Croatian state or national entity or it was a traditional homeland of one of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. The Kosovo region of Serb-dominated Yugoslavia is 90 percent Albanian, but the Serbs insist ...

The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 IN NOVEMBER 1934, during the dark years of growing tyranny throughout Europe, British historian Ramsey Muir penned a short article that appeared in the pages of the journal The Nineteenth Century and After. His theme was “civilization and liberty.” He asked how it was that of all the civilizations around the world, only the ...

Libertarian Splits in the War on Terrorism

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Libertarian Splits in the War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger, October 2001 Responses to the September 11 attacks have split the libertarian movement like no other issue I have seen since I discovered libertarianism almost 25 years ago. Limited-government libertarians have always maintained that one of the essential functions of government is to protect the nation from invasion or attack. The ...

A New Foreign-Policy Paradigm for America

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A New Foreign-Policy Paradigm for America by Jacob G. Hornberger, November 2001 Ludwig von Mises observed that government intervention inexorably leads to more government intervention until the point comes that government assumes total control over the affairs of the citizenry. The idea is that since government interventions always produce perverse consequences, government officials will inevitably enact new interventions designed to fix the ...

A New Foreign-Policy Paradigm for America

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Ludwig von Mises observed that government intervention inexorably leads to more government intervention until the point comes that government assumes total control over the affairs of the citizenry. The idea is that since government interventions always produce perverse consequences, government officials will inevitably enact new interventions designed to fix the problems resulting from the earlier ones. The cycle repeats ...