The Folly of Nation Building
It's hard to build a nation when the people you are building it for are shooting at you... Neocons: Small government conservative at home, big government progressive overseas. It's nuts... Steven Horwitz asks, "Can a Nation be Built?" Many people who are ordinarily skeptical about the benevolent power of the U.S. government at home have come to believe it can accomplish what they see as the noble task of nation-building in areas of the world that have been plunged into some degree of chaos by political upheaval and/or war. ( Steven Horwitz - Can a Nation be Built?) He goes on to make an excellent libertarian case against nation building... Put in the language of F. A. Hayek, nations are spontaneous orders that emerge from the daily choices of people about the language they use and the other ways in which they participate in or withdraw from a variety of cultural forms. Only the people themselves constitute a “nation” by their own individual...