[ I am a small-l libertarian.
What you describe is exactly why I am not an upper-case L libertarian.
Libertarians are deliberately delusional about national defense.
I don’t know why, but there is no question Libertarians are profoundly naive about the world. ]
The only thing that I agree with on Paul about National Defense is that we should have actually made a formal declaration of war when we went into Afghanistan and Iraq.
Why this wasn’t done in my opinion has a lot to do with the U.N. no doubt. But I agree with Paul that we should have formally declared war.
Yeah the naive thing concerns me, Paul says we cannot trust people in our own countries to rule over us which is correct, but then we can trust some crazy person in another country not to attack us.
Concerning foreign policy I really like the idea a foreign policy where we wait till we get attacked and then use the attack on us as an excuse to decimate the attacking country and annex it after turning it into a bombing range. Consider it a variation of MAD, only in this case it is AAD (Attacker Assured Destruction). There shouldn’t really be “preventative wars” just total defensive wars that end with the other side not existing to even regret attacking us.
“Concerning foreign policy I really like the idea a foreign policy where we wait till we get attacked and then use the attack on us as an excuse to decimate the attacking country and annex it after turning it into a bombing range. Consider it a variation of MAD, only in this case it is AAD (Attacker Assured Destruction). There shouldn’t really be “preventative wars” just total defensive wars that end with the other side not existing to even regret attacking us.”
Again reality is that you cant decimate a country full of civilians not morally,legally or even technically. Just because some dictator shoots a missile into your home,doesn’t give you a right to kill civilians who most likely hate that dictator but are powerless to do anything against him. This is not liberalism,this is reality,same goes for some terror organization:If AlQaida attacks who do you hit back, they not “based” anywhere in fact they could be “based” right here in US. And no nuking countries is not a solution,after a few nuclear explosions the fall-out will affect the whole world,including US. This is why to fight bad guys you do it preventively on their turf. Not after they commit mass murder in your cities. This is reality which Libertarians FAIL to understand. If we killed Hitler in 38,39 how many lives and treasure would have been saved?!
If we assisted undercover in Russia against the Bolshviks,how many lives in Vietnam,China,Russia would have saved Americans and other nationalities?