"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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The government was much smaller and less powerful than what even Browne
advocates when Lincoln was assassinated. I somehow suspect that the United
States would have its foreign enemies no matter what it did.

Lincoln was the one who set it on it's path of overarching power that it
employs today. From that point on, the president was more a ruler than a
governor. But, yes, Browne, like the rest of the anarchist wing of the LP,
have a very superficial view of what causes various problems. Like most
libertarians, they confuse liberty with "license". It's a very childish
perspective.