Steve Meier wrote: SM> The most obvious change is the dropping of the following text: "The principle of non-intervention should guide relationships between governments. The United States government should return to the historic libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, abstaining totally from foreign quarrels and imperialist adventures, and recognizing the right to unrestricted trade, travel, and immigration." <SM
The draft already includes this classic Platform language: "The principles which guide a legitimate government in its relationships with individuals and with other governments are the same as those which guide relationships among individuals: no individual, group, or government may initiate force against any other individual, group, or government. [...] American foreign policy should seek an America at peace with the world and the defense -- against attack from abroad -- of the lives, liberty, and property of the American people on American soil. We recognize the right to unrestricted trade and travel." This forum is about big-tent libertarianism. Only a pup-tent LitmusTestItarian would insist on codifying in the Platform his contentious interpretation of non-aggression as absolute non-intervention. I guess that given your recent performance on this forum, you're not very confident that non-intervention is strictly and indisputably implied by non-aggression. By contrast, I have the courage of my conviction that opposition to aggression is all the Platform needs to say about foreign policy. SM> So if it the vote is up or down my vote is down <SM You can tell a pup-tent libertarian by how he picks up his marbles and announces he's going home.
