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The Volokh Conspiracy Quandary

Several days after Liberty and Power brought up the case of an Afghan man who faces capital charges for converting to Christianity, Eugene Volokh has weighed in with a detailed discussion. In the comments section (spelling now corrected), I state the following:

I am glad Eugene is finally on the case. Unfortunately, he is still dancing around a fundamental quandary, a quandary that needs to be eventually faced by those VC bloggers who are pro-war.

How can they support, often just by their silence, the Wilsonian effort to spread democracy while, at the same time, call on the Bush admininistration to undermine the autonomy of these democracies just because the voters don't think the "right" way? This is a contradiction.
Perhaps the antiwar Hayekian libertarians had a point, after all, when they warned about the dangerous unintended consquences of going down the Wilsonian road. Perhaps too this is also the time for libertarians to reopen their debate on this policy.

Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 7:27 PM | Comments (2) | Return

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