The moral poverty that “self-esteem” requires war

LewRockwell.Com
by David J. Theroux

According to an August 31st news release from the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), the ‘war on terror’ is being lost because of ‘compromise,’ ‘appeasement,’ and a ‘lack of self-esteem.’ For these Randians, America needs to ‘adopt self-interest and victory.’ The ARI appears to believe that the U.S. is just not tough enough and lacks the courage to kill and keep on killing, bomb and keep on bombing, torture and keep on torturing, tax and keep on taxing, etc. — all in the name of ‘reason’ and ‘liberty’ of course. Apparently, I have missed something here. It would appear that the supporters of preemptive war in Iraq and elsewhere have had anything but a ‘lack of self-esteem.’ Indeed, the very bravado and imperial adventure of invasion and occupation would seem utterly contrary to ‘compromise’ and ‘appeasement.’ … One wonders who exactly the ARI believes Bush is appeasing, other than interest groups who have pushed for and are benefiting from the neo-mercantilist spending and hegemonic bonanza of the war and the enormous explosion of federal government power?

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