I've heard libertarians complain about using this motto to guide our foreign policy. While their criticisms are correct--they fail to understand the real implications of the dictum.
I did not break Iraq. Neither did any of the American citizenry. As Ron Paul pointed out last night, a select group of evil warmongers, i.e. the neoconservatives, broke Iraq. Unfortunately it is soldiers and citizens who are forced to pay for their mistakes.
But if we were to follow Huckabee's advice to its logical conclusion, it wouldn't be innocent Americans dying in Iraq or stolen from to fund the war; rather, George Bush, Dick Cheney, et al would all be over there at this moment trying to fix the problem themselves.
Can any libertarian (or decent human being) really object to this?
