The Sovereignty of Strangers

I can’t recall who wrote this or where. All I know is that some libertarian had asserted that the evangelical leader Pat Robertson was a traitor for advising Israel against appeasing the United States of America.
Come again?
Patriots for a sane American foreign policy—myself included—ought to encourage all America’s friends to push back and do what’s in their national interest, not ours.
More so than most, libertarians know the U.S. often acts unjustly. Why then would we want our friends to prostrate themselves before us? Those of us who want the U.S. to stay solvent—and out of the affairs of others—recognize that sovereign nation-states, who resist, not enable, our imperial impulses, are the best stopgaps against hegemonic overreach.
Such libertarians generally concede the U.S. should not override the sovereignty of other nations. That some make an exception for Israel, illustrates how irrational hatred distorts principles and their consistent application.