{"id":7884,"date":"2013-07-26T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2013-07-26T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:49:36","slug":"libertarians-are-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"‘Libertarians are dangerous’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday offered a clear broadside against Republicans drifting toward a more libertarian view of foreign policy, lumping Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in with them and suggesting they explain their position to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n

The House earlier this week narrowly voted against a reduction in funding for the National Security Agency, as libertarian-leaning members from both sides joined together to vote for the amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that\u2019s going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought,\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he includes Paul \u2014 a fellow potential 2016 presidential candidate \u2014 in his criticism, Christie didn\u2019t back down.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can name any one of them that\u2019s engaged in this,\u201d he said. \u201cI want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. \u2026 I\u2019m very nervous about the direction this is moving in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christie acknowledged that there will always be mistakes when it comes to national security and protecting privacy, but said Americans need to stay focused on what\u2019s at stake.<\/p>\n

He dismissed some of the current privacy\/national security debates as \u201cesoteric.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what we as a country have to decide is: Do we have amnesia? Because I don\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I remember what we felt like on Sept. 12, 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christie also praised the national security strategies of both President Obama and George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say that I think both the way President Bush conducted himself and the way President Obama has conducted himself in the main on those types of decisions hasn\u2019t been different because they were right and because we haven\u2019t had another one of those attacks that cost thousands and thousands of lives,\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n

Christie appeared alongside Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R). The four GOP governors appeared side-by-side at a session hosted by the nonpartisan Aspen Institute.<\/p>\n

The four of them are all considered among the GOP\u2019s top potential presidential candidates in 2016, with each of them ranking on The Fix\u2019s most recent list of the top 10 likeliest nominees.<\/p>\n

The Republican Governors Association was holding its summer meeting in the mountainous resort town.<\/p>\n

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), who was slated to appear, had to stay in his home state with the state legislature moving on legislation \u2014 including new abortion restrictions. – Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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