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A Devotion to Democracy? by Jacob G. Hornberger, April 2002 What’s with the love fest between U.S. officials and army generals? We have, of course, (retired) Army General Colin Powell serving as U.S. secretary of state. And we have (or will have) military tribunals manned by army officials, rather than jury trials by civilians, for foreigners accused of terrorism. There is Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani army general who was an ardent supporter of the Taliban — he took over the Pakistani government by ousting the democratically elected president in a coup and now, with the support of the U.S. government, refuses to call elections. Several days ago, U.S. officials implicitly endorsed (and possibly even supported) an army coup in Venezuela, where military officials unsuccessfully attempted to oust the democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez. And let’s not forget the U.S. government’s role in ousting the democratically elected president of Guatemala in the 1950s, which ultimately brought on a civil war resulting in the deaths of tens ...

The Legacy of Milton Friedman, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 Milton Friedman also was adept at proposing practical solutions to practical problems. He believed strongly in liberty, but he recognized that he needed to promote it practically. Nowhere was his ability in this area more evident than in his work on the All-Volunteer Force (AVF). He served on the official Gates Commission, which was charged with studying the feasibility of a volunteer military. He also worked well with like-minded advocates, such as Martin Anderson in the White House. In fact, Friedman was widely credited with swaying several of his colleagues in favor of ending conscription. The 15-member Gates Commission was said to have started out equally divided among pro, con, and undecided. After holding hearings and debating the issue, the commission voted unanimously in favor of moving to the ...

The Legacy of Milton Friedman, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 It has been more than a year since Milton Friedman passed from our lives. What a world he departed. The desire for liberty burns ever brightly. The forces of statism resist ever strongly. How we miss his presence. Although he has left us, his ideas live on. They remain eternally relevant to the age-old struggle to preserve individual liberty from state encroachment. Milton Friedman was born 95 years ago in Brooklyn. He was the son of immigrant parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Think of the world that he was born into. For a couple of years his family lived in La Belle Epoch, a time of peace, increasing trade, and growing prosperity. People could travel without passports. The great empires were gradually liberalizing. It ...