Scott Horton and I had a conversation on Antiwar Radio, very loosely based on my LRC article about the US government as North American Union. We touch on national sovereignty, international conspiracy, the 300-year-long drive to conquer Canada, the one war on which Lincoln was right, the mirage of American republicanism, the endless global war on terror, the imperial Constitution, the evil Monroe Doctrine, the "anti-colonial" empire, Indian genocide, Hamiltonian fascism, liberation imperialism, Northerners and Southerners united for war, modern-day Jacksonians, Jeffersonian warmongering, the tragic paradox of liberal empire, the appropriate use of "I told you so," the Rockwellian case for libertarian hope, the Paulian insight on the expenses of policing the world, the limits of socialism, the plan to bomb Iran, the gloriously pathetic Bush administration, and the one real would-be world government: the US.
As a special bonus, David Beito from Liberty and Power calls in and we take on neocon Tom Paine, slave states, secession, and the anti-slavery Articles of Confederation.
