Colorado is home to the Independence Institute, which recently hosted a debate between conservative Ann Coulter and libertarian Nick Gillespie. Some of Coulter's comments:
"Republicans may disagree about what serves America’s interest,
but Republicans argue about how to deploy the military so that it
will serve America’s national security interests. Democrats could
not care less. What they care about is: How do I fling the military
around the world to make it look like I’m tough on foreign policy?
Lyndon Johnson did it with Vietnam. He kept telling his advisers,
“I have to show them that Democrats can be tough on foreign policy
too. Let’s just keep sending more and more troops without any plan
to win.”
And Obama increasing troops in Afghanistan. What on earth are we doing in Afghanistan? Iraq has a literate
populace. It’s beautiful for democracy—as is Iran, by the way
—young, pro-Western. They’re being led by a lunatic. Afghanistan is
exactly the reverse. They have an Al Qaeda– friendly population
that has about an 11 percent literacy rate, more goats than flush
toilets. They don’t care that their life expectancy is 30 years,
they just don’t want foreigners on their soil. Our bombs cost more
than anything they could possibly hit in Afghanistan. Why are we
spending money on that war? And the answer is because it was a
talking point for Obama on the campaign trail: Oh, Iraq, that was
the bad war. Afghanistan, that was the good war.
What I care about—and what we can disagree about—is: What is in
America’s interest? I think Iraq was, and at least the first six
months of Afghanistan was in America’s interest. But you see with
Obama more clearly than you did with Lyndon Johnson that they do
not care about what helps America. It’s just what looks good for
the campaign."
There is also a transcript of a debate between conservative Jonah Goldberg and libertarian Matt Welch. Read the transcripts here: http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/19/fusionism-revisited/4
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