[Nosterrex]

From a purely philosophical view, Neoconservativism is what political sciences would call classical Liberalism. Liberalism today is the opposite of classical Liberalism. Libertarianism is one aspect of classical Liberalism. Both emphasis the negative view of liberty or freedom, that is, freedom from government interference. I should be able to do whatever I want as long as it does not violate the freedom of others. Much of Libertarianism today is closer to Anarchism than classical Liberalism. The failure of much of Libertarianism today is that it fails to understand that my private actions not only affect me, but they affect others. It is the same reason that classical Anarchism does not work.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for posting that.

[bamahead]

Neoconservativism is what political sciences would call classical Liberalism...of Libertarianism today is closer to Anarchism than classical Liberalism.

You've actually got it 100% backwards there FRiend. Classical liberal (and Libertarian) philosophies put the value of laissez-faire policy above other methods of state interventionism. This not only includes internal economic policy...but especially foreign policy.

When goods cannot cross borders, armies will. --Frederic Bastiat

Both Batsiat and Adam Smith pretty much laid out the cornerstones of classical liberal foreign policy, from an economists point of view. Both believed that any form of state interventionism, whether based on trade, economic, or even security concerns (they did not really differentiate) were bad news for a nation's prosperity...especially wars.

But war, although the greatest of consumers, not only produces nothing in return, but, by abstracting labour from productive employment and interrupting the course of trade, it impedes, in a variety of indirect ways, the creation of wealth --Adam Smith

Although Neoconservatives will argue that our current interventionist policy is more toward our security than economics....Smith's predicted result is the same. This is where Neoconservatism and classical liberalism part ways completely. Free trade is the way to prosperity, not anarchism...this is the mainstream libertarian belief:

Something you should check out: FEDERALISM AND INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY