You are the precisely the greatest danger America faces.

Libertarians are tearing apart the very fabric of American conservatism. You love to parade as intellectuals and great ideologues but in the midst of it- you just don’t get it. You don’t understand it.

You are not a patriot. You are not a freedom-loving person- you are just a leftist under the banner of freedom hidden in the right-wing spectrum of politics.

It’s high time all the conservative institutions and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Leadership Institute get rid of the anti-war libertarians. They are the antithesis of everything that makes America great. Too much of the Washington conservative movement has been overrun by you libertarian leftists. You aren’t social conservatives. It’s time to break up the big love-in. Reagan conservatives, not libertarian softies.

Qualtere was on the money. America is good, and better than the rest. It’s that simple. We are the light of the democracy in the world- and the first people to come to any country or people’s assistance when they need us. We have everything to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of.

We want good, proud conservatives, not half-arsed, limpdick, unpatriotic, happy-go-lucky, I want to be free to smoke-my-weed libertarians like you.

Grow a set.

Our country is broke, and our failed foreign policy is much to blame. Your emotionally charged argument is one that I would have wholeheartedly supported until I was awoken from my neocon slumber by Dr. Paul. Unfortunately, we can no longer affort to ignore the history of blowback and the reality of our fiscal insolvency.

I am a soldier. An infantryman, no less. I am also a member of the “9/11 generation” and saw and see it as my duty, when there is war, to fight. But your phrase, here-

“But for those of us who’ve chosen a vocation on the home front, our support for them and their mission must be unambiguous and unwavering. It is time for conservatism’s 9/11 generation to fully embrace and defend the role that history has bestowed upon us and wear our hawk feathers more proudly than ever.”

Is more than a little irritating, as is your entire article. I fight not because I believe we must, or because the enemy “hates our freedom,” so on and so forth. I fight because, for the Republic to become what it was and ought to be, it must survive. I fight because I am willing, and able, and could not ask someone to go in my stead, as you seem so proudly able. Sir, if you believe so strongly in these wars, then your place is in the ranks. Any less is dereliction of duty. Wars do not fight themselves, and your ridiculous assertion that you merely chose “a vocation on the home front” are insulting. There is no home front in these wars. This is not World War Two. This is not a war to determine the future of the western world. This is an attempt to kill a tactic, to fight an idea. Are we helping the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes. Should we be, at the expense of our own? I don’t know, and without history shedding light on our present and recent past, I likely won’t. But I digress.

You claim to be for liberty and small government, and yet your self-proclaimed idol did little to advance either, and did quite a bit to the detriment of both. I fight, sir, that liberty may be reborn, and live on. When we sacrifice our ideals on the altar of defending them, we have already lost.

A hawk you are, and nothing more. It is said that old men start wars, and young men fight them; you fly in the face of this maxim, a young men willing to start them without the decency to fight them. To those of you reading this who don’t see “national security” as the one thing in this world worth having, I beg you. See the sacrifices made, and make them worthwhile. Fight for liberty, for the rights of the individual, fight for the Republic. Not on the battlefield- I, and those with me, are here to fight for the body of the United States. There is a far more important battle raging for its soul. Fight for the Country the founders envisioned. If we continue down the path we’re on, we’ll have power, and little else. Liberty is everything. As Patrick Henry is claimed to have said, I know not what course others may take- but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

The onus is on you, cousin, not me. History is riddled with examples of how war-mongering led to overextended nations and economic collapse.

If you can do that, then I’ll take you seriously.