Libertarians and War: A Bibliographical Essay
• https://www.libertarianinstitute.org[Editor's note: this article was originally published at the Libertarian Standard and is reprinted with permission from the author. However, please note that the essay was published on March 20, 2013, therefore, to cover the intervening four years
The author of this article pigeonholes me among the "pro-war" libertarians. There's no such thing as pro-war libertarianism. Libertarianism is anti-State therefore anti-war. Libertarianism is not a political position but a moral philosophy. In some of my writings I acknowledged the moral libertarian position while while concluding that there were no satisfactory moral options available: any outcome was non-libertarian, unsatisfactory from a libertarian analysis, and my analysis was choosing between greater and lesser evils. I later wrote that some of what I'd previously written was my losing my way due to the trauma of 9/11. But much of what I wrote was still inveighing against using 9/11 as the excuse for a decrease in the people's liberties while pursuing our survival. Read my article at http://jneilschulman.agorist.com/2010/03/j-neil-schulman-on-war/