[Urbane Guerrilla]

Indeed? -- then dammit, Paul, why do you keep acting that way, or in a way that might too easily be understood to signify that?

1) I say "Yes."

2) In the current bloodshed, our foes, selfmade, self-declared, spent fourteen years repeatedly and persistently initiating the violence with us. No violation of libertarian principle is thereby incurred when we do something about this. They're picking on us, who are at least more libertarian than they, and we're called upon to defend our existence, fortunes, and wellbeing. We'll not manage that by withdrawing behind our borders, Paul. We can manage it by defeating them in their backyards.

That and constructive, successful foreign policy, particularly in dealing with conspicuously nonlibertarian states, has a nasty way of kicking the doctrinaire purist to the ditch and doing violence in general to a doctrinaire approach. I quite visibly recognize this; I have trouble seeing that pragmatism in you. Don't be in such a goddamn hurry for us to lose -- if we lose, we can't do libertarianism and spread it around generally like we want it, can we?

On a second glance, the rest of your post lays out why you went into political activity of the Libertarian persuasion. Okay. My motivations for giving Libertarianism a try are clearly rather different from yours.

I counsel you against any urge to purge, as another poster once put it. Do not enfeeble your party and its base merely because some of them make you itch.