These guys completely bastardized the concept of natural law to support the idea of perpetual war and importing "democracy" to other nations.
Regime change in natural law occurs through the consent of the governed, it doesn't happen by an external power imposing it BY FORCE on a subject nation! That's against the spirit of liberty and the principles of natural law.
Everyone does have a right to liberty, but that outcome can only come about by the will of the people.
What's strange is how neo-conservatives twist language around to muddle or confuse a certain situation. America was attacked on 9/11 by a group of radicals Wahhabi's from Saudi Arabia, yet we use that as a front to engage in long lasting wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, two nations which never attacked us and will never be a threat to the United States. Yet we engaged in these battles all under the banner of battling "Islamofacism", another nebulous political concept that is an extreme oversimplification of reality. But now that Obama and the neo-liberals are in power, the narrative has shifted: the same wars are being fought (and escalated) under the broader rubric of fighting terrorism. The concept of fighting "Islamofacism" is no longer the raison de etre of these conflict. Same war, new justification? Is it just me, or is this nuts?
Never mind that we've managed, since Obama took office, to spread the war into Pakistan, effectively displacing over 2 million people in the process. We're stirring up a hornets nest in Pakistan, a nuclear power we simply cannot afford to destabilize.
But its all for good, because we're fighting these wars to bring democracy to the world. Never mind that America is a republic, not a democracy. Nor is democracy ideal, as it tends to lead to tyranny after it becomes unmanageable. Say that you're for pluralism or for federated republics, but not democracy.
Meanwhile we go around the Middle East, overthrowing governments and establishing weak puppet regimes that barely hold the legitimacy of the people. How you can justify that with natural law is beyond me, frankly.
I don't see how this is a sustainable strategy in the long term, nor do I see how it benefits the American people to fight wars that only cause the country to incur more debts than we can afford to handle, given the present circumstances.
