VIDEO: Jack Hunter takes on Rumsfeld, Romney and the future of the Liberty Movement
Speaking the morning before President Obama and Romney were set to spar in their first presidential debate, Hunter suggested he saw little difference between many of the candidates positions.
“What we’re seeing even with Romney and Obama is that they don’t really disagree on very much at the end of the day,” said Hunter.
Hunter also responded to remarks former Secretary of State Rumsfeld made to LI’s Campus Reform last month in which he seemed to disparage the libertarian view of foreign policy.
At the time, Rumsfeld contended “There is a lot of appeal in the libertarian movement, in the country, and as I say a number of things I find that I agree with.” Rumsfeld continued “[T]he non-interventionist aspect of it, the idea that we can sit here with two big oceans like we were able to do in the 1700’s and the 1800’s I think is not realistic.”
(from Campus Reform)
At the time, Rumsfeld contended “There is a lot of appeal in the libertarian movement, in the country, and as I say a number of things I find that I agree with.” Rumsfeld continued “[T]he non-interventionist aspect of it, the idea that we can sit here with two big oceans like we were able to do in the 1700’s and the 1800’s I think is not realistic.”
Hunter remarked “That sort of neoconservative hawkish view [of foreign policy] which is really liberalism passed off as conservatism is horribly, horribly, naive.”
Hunter also suggested it is impossible to export democracy.
“You can’t give [the world] democracy, they have to fight for it themselves,” he argued. “We involve ourselves around the world to our own detriment. We involve ourselves there financially, militarily, and it hurts us.”
In any case, Hunter said he sees a bright future for the libertarian movement.
“The Liberty Movement itself is, I think, probably one of the most transformative and revolutionary forces in American politics right now, in the sense that [all] we have is a left and right that accept the status quo,” he concluded.