The Ruins of Afghanistan's Monument Valley (WSJ)

The Ruins of Afghanistan's Monument Valley (WSJ)

the assault on civilization is relentless, priceless treasures of archaeology now irrevocably damaged - Genghis Khan took no interest in them since they were not made of gold and silver, but the radical, aggressive monotheism of the nomads has proven intractable, the embedded genetic deviances of exponential and incalculable consequence - monolithism, monotheism of various types are very appealing and infectious to populations experiencing tyranny while deprived of the intellectual tools to reach a proper understanding of the cause

the cynical exacerbation of these fundamental contradictions, by ad hoc realpolitik is simply not sustainable because at some point the exhaustion of US moral capital will impinge on the ability of even the large US corps, the primary clients of the state, to operate freely in world markets without some aggression or other - at precisely the moment when the whole world is necessarily riveted by the spectacle of a giant rolling recession in the US, and its rippling consequences worldwide, the magnifying glass of exponential significance has been squarely placed on the US challenge, to make a giant upgrade in governmental morality and international morality, a challenge that the EU is making a spectacular, historic hash job of!

this is the point at which I make my pitch for Liberty, of course - the US can meet this challenge confidently because the fundamental strengths of the constitutional ideology are ever relevant to the present and eternal menace to civilization, aggression, ever relevant to the security of what is held by the US to be self evident truth - if I have discovered a point of difference with Mises (I have very few! before you faint from my shocking impertinence) it is on the singularity of civilization, I would speak of cultures as plural and civilization as singular - the constitution permits no abdication of the natural, self-evident humanism of classical liberal ideology, it is the "mission statement" of the nation, the implicit purpose of all state action, and therefore the irrevocable cornerstone of foreign policy

it is a misnomer to call the libertarian position "isolationist" in any other sense except that it is ideologically "isolationist" to the classical liberal humanism, Liberty requires that the US relationship with the rest of the world be driven by the friendships and business relationships of the people, without a partial application of state power in favor of this or that corporation/industry, no matter how large and lucrative a 'cash cow' it presents for the state - the state can only be consistent and principled in its use of counter-aggression when it is firmly committed to the principle of non-aggression that derives from the humanist premise, and applies across cultures and continents

speaking to this specific issue, Liberty recognizes the criminality of the taliban aggression against intellectual capital owned by all the people, likewise Liberty recognizes the duty to arrange and execute effective counter-aggression to prevent the vandalism of the peoples' treasures - swift, targeted action is the need of the hour, and it follows most smoothly from crystal clarity in the "mission statement", and Liberty is the mission statement of the constitution and the nation, an eagle that soars far above the paralysis of "left" versus "right"

[this vandalism really annoyed me, it should have been prevented - is it a case of empty lip service to the stone masonry of the ancient world?]