YES, I CAN AGREE WITH SOME LIBERTARIAN POSITIONS

I've written before about the growing unease defense hawks and neo-cons have with the idea that we may be forced to cut back on military spending and Max Boot just provided another example. Christopher Preble of the Cato Institute thinks that a decrease in our military spending is a good thing:

Fiscal pressures have the potential to cause the American people to scrutinize military spending, and this scrutiny could ultimately force Washington to revise some of the core assumptions that have driven force planning for a generation. If that happens, we might finally shift the burdens of defense spending back onto those who benefit from such spending.

I think Western Europe and Japan need to do much more to provide security throughout the world.