This is a plug for Rockwell´s “Real
Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card…”. What follows is a quote
from Rockwell´s website.
Lew Rockwell himself
“The respectables of left and right
do not deign to show where we’re wrong, of course. The very fact that we’ve
strayed from the approved spectrum is refutation enough. That’s why I’ve called
these people the thought controllers, the commissars, or the enforcers of
approved opinion.
Let me modify that: once in a while
they do try to show where we’re wrong, but they can almost never manage even to
state our position correctly, much less muster an effective argument against
it. These purpose of these alleged replies is not to shed light, but to
demonize libertarians in the public mind.
In Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets
Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion – my first book in nearly four
years – I take aim at these critics and their arguments.
Part I covers foreign policy and war.
The regime has fostered more confusion among the public over these issues than
any other. Conservatives, of all people, wind up supporting courses of action
that (1) expand the power of the state over civil society; (2) are justified on
the basis of propaganda they’d laugh at if it came from the mouths of Saddam
Hussein or Nikita Khrushchev; and (3) violate the absolute standards of
morality that conservatives never tire of telling us are under assault. The
antiwar reputation of left-liberals, meanwhile, is almost entirely undeserved;
the mainstream left supported every major U.S. war of the twentieth century.
Conservatives no doubt consider
themselves cheeky and anti-establishment for supporting U.S. military
interventions, yet virtually all major U.S. newspapers supported the two wars
in Iraq and have called for a belligerent posture against Iran. If
conservatives think they’re sticking it to the New York Times by supporting the
federal government’s wars, they are deceiving themselves. It was the New York
Times’ Judith Miller, for instance, who later became notorious for her
uncritical acceptance of war propaganda. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were
every bit as belligerent as George W. Bush – Kerry even said in 2004 that he
would be less likely than Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, and proposed
sending an additional 40,000.
The BBC comes partially clean: The Iraq invasion was a
huge blunder, backed by Democrats, Republicans,
and European poodle regimes.
Against this bipartisan consensus,
anyone advocating a consistent policy of nonintervention abroad – the correct
libertarian and conservative position, if you ask me – can expect to be
marginalized and ignored. Meanwhile, the interventions of the past dozen years
have backfired spectacularly, as Ron Paul and other noninterventionists
predicted they would.
I put this part of the book front
and center because I myself have so much penance to do. As a younger man I was
a Rush Limbaugh listener and a garden-variety neoconservative. I cheered on
every government intervention abroad, I accepted all the official rationales,
and I demonized opponents and skeptics as America haters. I then realized I was
just the flipside of a typical left-liberal, who cheered on every government
intervention at home, accepted all the official rationales, and demonized
opponents and skeptics as haters of the poor.
With both left and right cheering on
the state in one capacity or another, the prospects for scaling it back are
dim. The whole package, the whole tissue of lies, needs to be confronted.”
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