POSNER ON US POLICY @Posner This breach of peace is because that lesson has atro

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/09/when-should-we-interfere-in-another-countrys-internal-affairs-posner.htmlCONTRA POSNER ON US POLICY

@Posner

This breach of peace is because that lesson has atrophied into a moral conviction expressed as policy.

a) People have the right to self determination.

b) Self determination is limited to good citizenship in the pattern of production and trade.

c) That destabilization of the pattern of production and trade that influences commodities that could encourage warfare is equal to the waging of war against a neighbor.

d) That if a people choose a government that abridges a, b or c, then we, the USA, will punish that government and the citizenry for their poor choices.

We are not a peer nation. We are an empire. We act like an empire. We act like an empire in no small part because we must out of economic self interest, and in no small part, because our main trading, political, and cultural partners, actually WANT us to, so that they can participate in the reconstruction of Europe, after the first world war that destroyed human civilization as we know it, and from which we only begin to emerge in the present decade – albeit over a century behind what might have been.

So, in closing, I’m a little uncomfortable with harkening back to historical reference of equal states, when our empire is run pragmatically for pragmatic purposes, and our policy has been reduced to ideology

Curt Doolittle

THe Propertarian Institute