[Colonel Kangaroo]

The author of the piece writes I’m a national security hawk. But, I’m also a free-market capitalist

I think the problem is that a true free market economy cannot exist with the kind of activist hawkish foreign policy we've had since the end of the Cold War. The first modern welfare state was Otto von Bismarck's Germany.

[1010RD]

Spot on comment. The trouble is that people think we cannot keep commerce flowing without meddling in the internal affairs of every country.