Libertarians for Ron Paul

Conservatives Must Oppose Militarism and War

“The fetishization of all things martial by the bulk of 21st-century conservatives is inescapable and worrisome. Whether it’s rapturous warmongering in the pages of The Weekly Standard or embarrassing displays of machismo on the part of our president-cum-fighter pilot, the sentiment is difficult to evade, yet impossible to understand. It is a thoughtless and superficial obsession, and thoroughly unnatural, for militarism is at odds with everything for which the Right supposedly stands.

Until quite recently, conservatives – that is, people who support limited government, controlled spending, low taxes, individual liberty, rule of law, decentralization, restrained executive authority, and cautious foreign interaction – were skeptics of the military.”

Philip Primeau makes the case for antiwar conservatism @ http://www.antiwar.com/orig/primeau.php?articleid=11198