U.S.-led airstrikes on Yugoslavia may be cruel, counterproductive and unconstitutional, but there’s no shortage of politicians, journalists and intellectuals willing to beat the drums–or at least pound their computer keyboards–for war. Former liberal peaceniks, morphed into saber-rattling hawks, have joined with neoconservative chest-pounders to
Justin Raimondo, a media fellow of the Mises Institute, has been writing a daily column since the Balkan war began. His analysis of why the U.S. is involved in this conflict is particularly compelling. See his extended treatment on Why the War? .
Jude Wanniski argues that the IMF’s “shock therapy”--with its characteristic devaluations, tax increases, and wage freezes--marked the beginning of ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia. Read Polyconomics.com for his perspective.
At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. had the opportunity to reclaim its heritage as a commercial republic, trading and pursuing peaceful international relations with all nations. That path would have made possible a massive cut in the size of government. Alas, special interests would not allow it to happen, and now both parties are searching for
The U.S. government has postured as the enemy of ethnic cleansing in its War on Yugloslavia, and also maintained that its assaults on innocents have been purely accidental. American history complicates the picture enormously. Thomas DiLorenzo details the history of the U.S. government’s attacks on Indians, in his piece, The Feds versus the Indians
The Free Market 17, no. 6 (June 1999) After the US government attacked Yugoslavia, the first act of the Republicans was to take tax cuts off the table (if they were ever really on it). This symbolic gesture underscores a point: when a war is on, the work of liberty is off. For this reason, everyone concerned about freedom must oppose war. At the
The Free Market 17, no. 7 (July 1999) On the wall outside my office, the gift of Nelson White, is a framed piece of money: a 500 billion dinar note issued by the government of Yugoslavia. It was printed in 1993, when it would buy about a gallon of milk. And that was before the inflation really got bad. By January 1994, the rate would reach 313
The Free Market 17, no. 7 (July 1999) The international socialist movement, led by Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is attempting to revive the disastrous policy of war socialism with which the current century began. Four recent events make clear their intentions: the Nato war on
The Free Market 17, no. 10 (October 1999) Although it went unobserved in media accounts, there was something for everyone in Mrs. Albright’s splendid little war: the left can toast their humanitarianism, right-militarists can justify more “defense” spending, Nato has a new lease on life, the Serbs were rid of the Kosovars, and 10,000 ethnic
Kennan on Germany Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999) “A LETTER ON GERMANY” George Kennan The New York Review of Books XLV, No. 19, December 3, 1998, pp. 19–21 In a brief article, appearing in the form of a letter to his friend Gordon Craig, the eminent diplomat and historian George Kennan reverses an all-too-common view of twentieth-century
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