Posted by Eugene Volokh: Tom Palmer on "Libertarians" Defending the Bad Guys in Eastern Europe?
Tom Palmer has several posts on this (see [1]here, [2]here, and [3]here). Thanks to Jacob Levy for the pointers. Incidentally, I'm not opposed to helping foreign bad guys on occasion -- consider helping Stalin against Hitler, or helping dictators against Communists. (Sometimes this may have been mistaken, but often it was not; the South Koreans are, I suspect, much better off because we supported their leaders against the North Koreans, even though for decades South Korea was indeed ruled dictatorially.) But that you sometimes have to choose a lesser evil against a greater evil is no excuse for choosing the greater evil against the lesser. I am not an expert on Eastern Europe, but from my lay perspective, Yushchenko et al. are surely better than their rivals; and it's a shame that some Americans are backing those rivals. References 1. http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/016326.php 2. http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/016298.php 3. http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/016172.php _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
