It’s not so much the “policing the world” business that I have a problem with, it’s the attempts at nation-building amongst savages. It isn’t working. How could it? It fails for the same reason that open borders will destroy this country. Culture matters, perhaps preeminently.
Libertarians, particularly those in the Libertarian Party, are having a difficult time distinguishing themselves from anarchists. Free trade and open borders will not bring about world peace. That is just the sort of Utopian thinking that runs rampant on the Left, merely from the other direction.
The whole article is based on a Strawman... i.e. the only options are all out war, or do nothing.
That is why nobody will vote for the dumb bastards, they lie as much as liberals.
The real option is to stomp a bully’s ass and go home. No need to run their house or cure their problems. You warn them to stop what they are doing, and punish them severely if they don’t.
No reward for doing what you want, just punishment if they don’t do it!