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Entry: The Revolution and the Right Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_revolution_and_the_right#17919 Post contents: Reply to Mr. Hayes: Grant Hayes sez: “anti-imperialist” need not be monopolized by Marxists; Senator Taft and Murray Rothbard also opposed imperialism, after all….Krauthammer and other neocons gladly employ the term “empire” to describe their ideology…I doubt that the US can restore the 19th century by returning to pure protectionism…the US was her own best market--hardly the case today…the isolationist success in reducing US forces in the interwar period emboldened Mussolini and Hitler--all the more reason to avoid the term. What economic ignorance you espouse. Taft never used the term extensively in his criticism of US foreign policy. Murray Rothbard is a freak of the 60’s, who sought out an “alliance” with the New Left during the Vietnam era, echoing the “imperialism” nonsense spouted by the likes of Chompsky and his ilk. You’d have to be some kind of a nut case to think that the Global War of Containment with Soviet Communism that resulted in Vietnam was “imperialism” in the classic sense, as Rothbard/Chompsky claimed. Nor have I ever heard Krauthammer defend the “War on Terrorism” as building an empire, that’s the accusation made by critics of neo-conservative ideology. And what exactly is the USA selling to other countries? Duh. You talk like the trade deficit doesn’t’ exist, and you’ve got to be pretty much an idiot to ignore the fact that the main export of the USA to other countries is scrap iron and waste paper, along with agricultural commodities--which are subsidized btw. You compound your economic ignorance with historical ineptitude by dragging Hitler into this…the prevailing view of WWII is that it was a continuation of the unresolved issues of WWI, Hitler the creation of Wilson’s internationalism as much as Bin Ladin the creation of US support of dictatorial regimes in Saudi Arabia and Israel. What really is a joke is that you “libertarians” share so many premises with the neo-cons you claim to oppose…the historical background of WWII, the myth that globalization is the natural outcome of some fantasy of a “free” market…next you’ll be defending “Israel’s right to exist”…and the World Bank/IMF/Export-Import Bank as the highest stage of “freedom”…. Sent at: 2008 05 16