Gary Johnson’s Foreign Policy Is All Over the Map

This is a guest contribution from Maria Andersen. She is a researcher living in Washington, DC.

Until recently, Gary Johnson, the presumptive Libertarian Party presidential nominee, has been clear on his foreign policy views. He has argued for the removal of troops in Afghanistan. He was against intervention in Libya. He is not in favor of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen. Johnson justifies his views by pointing out that none of these countries pose any military threat to the United States. Johnson has said:

Given trillion-dollar deficits, America simply cannot afford to be engaged . . .
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On Libya and Blowback

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Over at the National Interest, Paul Pillar raises one of the issues with America’s current intervention in Libya that has not been discussed nearly enough:  the effect on terrorism.  When terrorism has been brought up in the context of Libya it is usually framed around Qaddafi’s past support for it—particularly the 1988 bombing Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland—and the possibility that he will return to supporting terrorism in the wake of the West’s attempt to depose him.  There is also the loss of Libyan cooperation in the War on Terror that came after Qaddafi traded the . . .
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