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Ethan Clauset writes:

> [I]n the interest of not carrying on much more, let me just say that 
> cries of 'but we shouldn't get involved' are more than a bit 
> disingenuous, as we're [the US is] already in up to our necks.

Then my cry is that we should get uninvolved.

> what's the net.libertarian position on federal government responsibility 
> for extra-constitutional foreign policy disasters?

My libertarian position is that the federal so-called govt should 
stop violating the Constitution, both at home and abroad.  Officials 
who violate the supreme law of the land should be impeached and/or 
prosecuted and/or (presuming free elections get restored) voted 
out.  

Individual culpability can be hard to establish, though.  IMO we'd do 
better to focus more on positively teaching American non-
interventionism generally, than specifically to focus negative efforts 
against particular incumbents.  If people come back around to seeing 
our govt's purpose as being to secure OUR rights, they themselves will 
start calling for individual incumbents to answer for these foreign-
policy disasters.  As it is now, we get the perennial problem that too 
many people think the policy-makers' -intentions- were noble (and only 
their particular methods were mistaken).


Ray