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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 5
Though I announce it belatedly, Gary Chartier’s second and third posts at “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” have been up for a while: Bleeding Heart Libertarians for Redistribution and Poverty and the State.
Gratitude Attitude?
Here’s my letter (needless to say, not published) to Dear Abby from a few weeks ago.
Dear Abby:
I couldn’t disagree more with “Proud Mom in Overland Park,” and with your reply to her.
The idea that we owe “gratitude” to members of the armed forces is baffling. The U.S. military travels all over the world, acting in our name, shooting and bombing innocent people who have never posed any threat to us.
How is this of any benefit to the American people? If anything, it makes us less safe, by fueling violent resentment around the world.
No, I don’t think members of the armed forces should be “cursed and reviled” either. They’re mostly victims, who’ve been tragically deceived by government propaganda.
I used to be a strong supporter of U.S. troops and U.S. military action myself. Then I gradually started to learn more and more about what the military actually does and how little it adheres to its supposed mission of defending American liberty.
I urge you to educate yourself and your readers on the actual causes and effects of U.S. foreign policy; two good places to start are Jonathan Kwitny’s Endless Enemies and Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback.
UNGRATEFUL IN ALABAMA
Roderick T. Long
Reaching Left, Part 2
Keith Preston has a critique of my Mises Circle paper. (CHT Ralph Raico.) Needless to say, I have some comments to make about it, but no time right now (I just got back from San Diego), so I’m simply linking to it for the moment. (But three smiley faces to the first reader to identify the glaring non sequitur in his first paragraph ….)
In related news, Martin a.k.a. Mr. Civil Libertarian has a piece on left-libertarianism here.
Smashing Capitalism in Nassau
Darian Worden’s contribution to our free-market anti-capitalist panel at APEE earlier this month is now online!
Labyrinth in Aqua
The Molinari Society session on Gary Chartier’s book will run from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, 23 April 2011, in San Diego’s Hilton Bayfront. For anyone planning to attend, I can now announce the room: Aqua 300.
The Hilton Bayfront’s floors are identified by shades of blue – Indigo, Aqua, Sapphire – rather than by numbers (though they are not actually painted the shades they are named after), but the Aqua level is essentially the 3rd floor. Finding room 300 is non-obvious, since it’s not near most of the other meeting rooms and the signage is unhelpfulage; but once you get off the escalator on Aqua, head straight ahead toward the windows. When you see a UPS store to the right, turn right, going past the UPS store (keeping it on your left), then turn left and head all the way back.
Or you can just look at the following map of the Aqua level. Aqua 300’s at the lower left. (Click for increased hugeness.)
