"It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society."
- Murray N. Rothbard


Statist Problems

• Terrorism hits the homeland

• Iran: The Next Neocon Target
  - Ron Paul, April 5, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush’s Latest Idea
  Now, heaven help us, he has another idea: Let’s extend the war to Iran. - Joseph Sobran, March 21, 2006 [Sobran's]

• A Memorial Day Gift of Reality
  - Robert L. Johnson, June 1, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• The New American Militarism
  - Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich, April 21, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
  - Stephen Bender, April 8, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Exploitation of Soldiers
  - Butler Shaffer, December 21, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• War, Peace, and the State
  - Joseph R. Stromberg, November 10, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Bipartisan War Machine
  And the results will be the same: bigger, more intrusive government at home; a world of perpetual war for perpetual peace abroad. - Hunt Tooley, September 17, 2003 [Mises]

• War is Good Business: Invest Your Son
  During the Vietnam War era, one of the popular slogans of the anti-war movement was “War is good business, invest your son.” This sad analogy continues to apply today. - Mike Schelstrate, March 6, 2003 [infowars.com]

• The Insanity of the State
  But it is not madmen who turn states into the brutal systems they are: it is the state itself that mobilizes our "dark side" energies into destructive practices, an end brought about only through our willingness to lose our individuality in the mass-mindedness that is essential to all political systems. -Butler Shaffer, February 26, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush Cutting Legal Corners: A Wartime Pattern
  - Alan Bock, August 27, 2002 [antiwar.com]

• Bad Habits
  For how many generations have the American people been forced into orgies of killing by the State? - Robert Klassen, June 15, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Economic Burden of the Cold War
  - Karen De Coster, June 7, 2002 [Mises]

• Politics and War As Entertainment
  - Butler Shaffer, May 29, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush Swells the State
  - Jeffrey Tucker, April 24, 2002 [Mises]

• Hypocritical, Cowardly Chicken-Hawk Armchair Generals
  - Bob Wallace, April 22, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Didn't Know It, Don't Believe It, Agree With It
  I have decided this attitude is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Specifically it's Sloth. Mental Sloth. - Bob Wallace, April 8, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Kinda Sorta Maybe Forever War
  If this keeps up, Dubya, may be a one-term president, just like the dim-bulb who sired him. - Bob Wallace, March 28, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Ignorance and Empire
  The need for an informed American people has perhaps never been greater, but it’s rarely been more difficult to get alternative perspectives before the public. - Thomas E. Woods, Jr., March 28, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Warmongers
  Warmongers puzzle me. A warmonger is: "One who advocates or attempts to stir up war." What motivates these people? - Robert Klassen, March 25, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Wounds of War
  Americans are discussing whether the president can just take on the powers of a Caesar, claiming more and more power because of the demands of war. - Gregory Bresiger, February 7, 2002 [Mises]

• U.S. commanders ordered killings of Korean refugees: BBC documentary
  - Hwang Jang-jin, January 26, 2002 [The Korea Herald]

• War and the American Empire
  - John Bottoms, January 25, 2002 [Strike the Root]

• What Thrives and What Dies During War?
  - Mark Thornton, January 19, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• War Is the Health of the State
  - Sheldon Richman, January 2002 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Monolithic State of America
  - Joseph Sobran, December 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• War papers reveal bombers' terror tactics
  "Britain and the United States bombed small towns in Germany in the final stages of World War II because they would burn easily and not because they were strategically important, documents found in the British Public Record Office reveal." - Richard Norton-Taylor, August 27, 2001 [The Guardian]

• Standing Armies Stand in the Way of Freedom
  "Many readers have asked me how I can be in favor of secession when the State has the big guns. Consider who it is that gave them those guns! It was us! The power to give and the power to take away belong to us, the people. That we choose not to use that power is whose fault?" - Michael Peirce, August 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The First Casualty of War
  "Although it is certainly true that all wars corrupt, it is not true that all wars corrupt equally. A defensive war presents fewer opportunities for corruption and more for justice." - Kelly G. Black, May 1, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• They Are Beating the War Drums (Again)
  "Colonel David Hackworth, for whom I have great respect, has jumped on board the terror bombing bandwagon. In a column titled 'Bring Down the Beast' on World Net Daily he advocates slamming the Iraqis and exhorts Bush Junior to follow in Daddy’s footsteps. He advocates war.

  In short – he wants Americans to kill people because in his opinion, Saddam Hussein is a bad man." - Michael Peirce, February 21, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Marines' Osprey Is a Taxpayer Albatross
  - Ivan Eland, January 26, 2001 [CATO]

• Tragic bombing in Yemen was result of our interventionist foreign policy
  "The apparent terrorist attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer that killed 17 Americans in Yemen on Thursday is another bloody reminder that an interventionist foreign policy inevitably results in the deaths of innocent Americans, the Libertarian Party says."- released October 13, 2000 [LP Press Release]

• Test Your Foreign Policy IQ
  List of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of World War II (with one mulitple choice question)

• The needless US Pacific War with Japan -- Courtesy of Stalin and FDR
  "Officially, the reason an expansionist, resource-poor Japan attacked the headquarters of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii without warning on Sunday, Dec. 7th, 1941, was to quickly forestall any US potential interference in Tokyo's drive to seize and retain the resource rich possessions of the USA, Britain, Holland and France in the south Pacific Ocean. On surface, this is true. But to paraphrase famed British statesman Benjamin Disraeli, what lay 'behind the scenes?'" - Michael E. Kreca, October 9, 2000 [Enter Stage Right]

• Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? - The Historical Record
  "According to the Pentagon's Defense Science Board, a strong correlation exists between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States. President Clinton has also acknowledged that link." - Ivan Eland, December 17, 1998 [CATO]

• The Costs of War
  "The Pentagon says we need a warfare state that can conduct two foreign wars at one time - which is not to say it won't be shy about asking for billions more once those wars are begun. But if our concern is the preservation of a free society, we could do no better than to echo James Madison: 'No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.'" - John V. Denson, August 1997 [Mises]

• Congressman Ron Paul on War in Kosovo
  "This is not a proud moment for America, as the United States military has been used to invade a sovereign nation that threatened neither our security, nor even the borders of our allies or friends." - [Self-Gov.org]

• Military Corruption and Erosion [Architecture of Modern Political Power]
  "To understand the woeful and treacherous tales recorded in this chapter, one has to consider the interaction of three distinct conspirator objectives, namely (1) the subjugation of the United States through the destruction of its social capital, military morale, and constitutional government, and the destruction of its global reputation and influence ('As you can see, American model constitutional representative government doesn't work!' Bilderberg disingenuously gloats), (2) the subjugation and provocation of various political entities scattered around the world, for a variety of political, geopolitical, and economic motives, and (3) the creation of a mercenary military without national allegiance or moral scruples."

• "Isolationism," Left and Right
  "ISOLATIONISM" WAS COINED as a smear term to apply to opponents of American entry into World War II. Since the word was often applied through guilt-by-association to mean pro-Nazi, "isolationist" took on a "right wing" as well as a generally negative flavor. - Murray Rothbard, from Chapter 14 of For a New Liberty

Libertarian Solutions

• Peace Breaks Out
  - David Rosinger, April 6, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

• Individualism vs. War
  - Scott Horton, August 2, 2005 [antiwar.com]

• For Peace and Freedom
  HR 4775 thus threatens the liberty and prosperity of all Americans so I urge my colleagues to reject this bill. - Congressman Ron Paul, MD, May 24, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Were the Founding Fathers Wrong about Foreign Affairs?
  The principles enshrined in the Constitution do not change. If anything, today's more complex world cries out for the moral clarity provided by a noninterventionist foreign policy. - Congressman Ron Paul, MD, April 17, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Case for Defending America
  If we do not wisely step back and reassess our worldwide commitments and our endless entanglements as we march toward world government, economic law will one day force us to do so anyway under undesirable circumstances. - Congressman Ron Paul, MD, January 25, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Great Anti-War Films

• Libertarianism and International Violence
  "Based on theory and previous results, three hypotheses are posed:
  
  • Libertarian states have no violence between themselves.
  • The more libertarian two states, the less their mutual violence.
  • The more libertarian a state, the less its foreign violence."