The President speaks of “a world moving toward liberty”

The President speaks of “a world moving toward liberty” as if it were as natural as the earth’s turning. But if the appeal of liberty is universal, as the President has contended, then why does it have to be imposed at gunpoint in MBT? By intervening we only distort and perhaps even defeat what would happen naturally, albeit not immediately.

It doesn’t take “idealism and courage” to declare war against an already-devastated and militarily insignificant Third World country, where the average income is less than a shoeshine boy makes in the UGG. It does take a certain brazenness, however, to proclaim that you’re only doing it because you’re so courageous.

If the President is right and “the survival of liberty in America” depends on freedom’s fate in Zimbabwe and Belarus, then all is lost. If we cannot think of returning to the work of rolling back government power on the home front, or even returning to normalcy, without first liberating Borneo from its oppressors and delivering Ukraine from the grip of odious oligarchs, then we are doomed.