As a follow-up to my post,
Koch-Funded Student Group Attacks Ron Paul, which discusses Alexander McCobin's piece attacking Ron Paul's call for the U.S. to stop meddling in the Ukraine, Bionic Mosquito emails to point out:
I posted something on him a couple of years ago, based on an interview he did at the Daily Bell. He caught my attention, but for all the wrong reasons.
In the 2012 essay, Bionic wrote:
His view on war and the military is one big (and un-asked) question. This comment (when writing elsewhere about some of the differences of opinion amongst libertarians) gives a hint:
While many libertarians opposed the invasion of Iraq, Randy Barnett wrote a strong, libertarian defense of pre-emptive intervention.
That he remains open to a discussion on this issue is…troubling, to say the least.
The other troubling issue is no mention of central banking (nor do I find any via a quick search of outside resources).
The full Bionic analysis is
here.
Excellent analysis. Very glad to have read the full article, a clearer picture is arriving of Mr. Alexander, and it isn't anything I would support.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, I wouldn't call anyone supporting pre-emptive (offensive) war a libertarian. Since Alexander does so, I would hardly call himself a libertarian. He sounds closer to a "intellectual Republican" where the debate uses more vocabulary words but the end results are the same. For instance, Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Alexander is an Objectivist. Eod.
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