All Posts Tagged With: "national defense"
Deficit Hawks or War Hawks?
Last month I asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at it this way: War hawks make poor deficit hawks. Facing a $13 trillion national debt and trillion-dollar-plus annual budget deficits, we can’t afford to be complacent about foreign interventions costing $12 billion [...]
22Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerican Exceptionalism: Is it Nationalism in Disguise?
I’ve been disturbed lately by the increased usage of the phrase “American Exceptionalism.” One longstanding critique of conservatism is that the word “conservative” has no substantial meaning beyond indicating a resistance to change. Conservatives therefore spend too much time trying to backfill an empty concept with whatever ideas they need to pass the popular agenda item [...]
9Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 4 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedMaking Terrorists Pay
If there is one lesson the United States must teach after the September 11 atrocities, it is that terrorism does not pay. Washington should allow, indeed encourage, victims of terrorism to go after the assets of the perpetrators. A pregnant widow of one of the victims of the World Trade Center attack was the first [...]
1Feb2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica in East Asia
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Cold War ended a decade ago, but America’s defense posture has changed little, especially in East Asia. Washington policymakers seem determined [...]
1May2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedOutside the Limits
“Slobodan Milosevic is hideous. If tomorrow he is run over by a beer truck the world will be a better place.” That was my response to the bright woman who was simultaneously cutting my hair and seeking my opinion of U.S. military involvement in Kosovo. “So you agree that NATO’s bombing mission is justified?” she [...]
1Jun1999 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Taiwan Model
Hugh Macaulay was Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University. He was a visiting professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei from August 1984 to July 1985. People at all times in the past and everywhere on earth today have wanted to enjoy economic growth and prosperity, as well as political and personal freedom. Unfortunately, [...]
1Jul1998 | Hugh Macaulay | 0 comments | Continued-
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