From Murray Rothbard’s 1994 essay, “Just War”:“The Somalian intervention [by the U.S. military] was a perfect case study in the workings of [the] Wilsonian dream. We began the intervention by extolling a ‘new kind of army (a model army if you will, engaged in a new kind of high moral intervention: the U.S. soldier with a CARE package in one hand, and a gun in the other. The new “humanitarian” army, bringing food, peace, and democracy and human rights to the benighted peoples of Somalia, and doing it all the more nobly and altruistically because there was not a scrap of national interest in it for Americans. It was this prospect of a purely altruistic intervention — of universal love imposed by the bayonet — that swung almost the entire “antiwar” Left into the military intervention camp. Well, it did not take long for our actions to have consequences, and the end of the brief Somalian intervention provided a great lesson if we only heed it: the objects of our “humanitarianism” being shot down by American guns, and striking back by highly effective guerilla war against American troops, culminating in savaging the bodies of American soldiers. So much for “humanitarianism,” for a war to impose democracy and human rights; so much for the new model army.”The post Why Neocons Like Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham are Responsible for the Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal appeared first on LewRockwell.