{"id":414,"date":"2004-03-26T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=414"},"modified":"2004-03-26T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T14:40:53","slug":"the-myth-of-national-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of National Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/blog\/archives\/counterterrorism_by_government_is_impossible_001757.asp\">posted<\/a> a good review of some reasons why it&#8217;s ludicrous to deny that the Bush administration had an Iraq fixation. He also observes that the partisans exchanging fire over Richard Clarke&#8217;s book, testimony, and other 9\/11 commission revelations will undoubtedly continue to agree on one thing when the page is turned on this particular chapter; the gov&#8217;t should be given even more money and power to combat terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Rockwell writes &#8220;It implies not less warmongering but merely a different form of imperialism.&#8221;  He also reiterates the chronically ignored point that we should be discussing why the United States became a target in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He proposes that while the gov&#8217;t will always fail to make good on its promises to provide this security, the market can succeed, and urges all to read this book before rejecting the idea:<\/p>\n<p><b>The Myth of National Defense<\/b> by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/store\/product1.asp??SID=2&#038;Product_ID=171\">Click here to buy the book<\/a>][ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/etexts\/defensemyth.pdf\">Click here to read online (pdf)<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. has posted a good review of some reasons why it&#8217;s ludicrous to deny that the Bush administration had an Iraq fixation. He also observes that the partisans exchanging fire over Richard Clarke&#8217;s book, testimony, and other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}