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Originally Posted by f0ca1
Lol.
If they own it, it's not ours.
Unless I own your stuff.
I'm pretty sure libertarians believe in a right to ownership.
But, then, libertarians probably wouldn't think picking a side in a religious conflict would be a wise choice for the big government.
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I think you
might have missed the sarcasm.
Anyway, Libertarians do believe in the inalienable right to property. However, Libertarians also believe in the prevention of monopolies. OPEC currently represents a near monopoly on petroleum resources. Witness the effect of their embargo. In a freer market system, this would have been economically disastrous for OPEC because they would have been simply forced out of the market and the price of oil would have only been moderately affected. The problem lies in the fact that OPEC is an international organization, and it is therefore hard to impose monopoly restricting regulations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
If military force is the only way to stop this monopoly, then it is necessary to the functioning of the world. Due to the incompetence of the UN, the US has to play this role in the world, and it should. But we should also recognize that the Iraq war was not about oil, it was about finding WMD.