Karen DeCoster on Neocons and Beltway Libertarians: A Tautology:
Neocons are allied with their friends in the Beltway Libertarian community, and these deep-seated bonds are puzzling. This has led to Libertarians relentlessly attacking libertarians. This sort of thing, on the Internet, has become a labyrinth of ideologies, alliances, hatefests, catfights, and muddled truths. Everybody is attacking everyone else, and they are, supposedly, all libertarians.
So what is all going on here?
Well, a lot is going on, but the main problem has been September 11, 2001 and what has happened since then. As every chirping bird out there repeats ad nauseum post-9/11, “everything’s changed.” What’s really changed is that the war “libertarians” have fought bitterly to denounce non-pro-war libertarians and their adherence to ABC axioms of libertarianism. (And I need not explain all that again here.) This has led to the creation of the Neocon-Libertarian Monster. The libertarian stance on war, as Jacob Hornberger once remarked to me, “separates the wheat from the chaff.” Indeed it has.
As ya'll know from reading this blog, I have a lot of respect for Mr. Hornberger.