ABSTRACT
Thomas Fleming, in fact, later claimed that American involvement in Central America undid the lessons Vietnam taught the budding American Empire. By the early 1990s, Murray Rothbard had become thoroughly disillusioned with the Libertarian Part's (LP's) stand on social issues. In the 1970s, the LP did have a window of opportunity to become a force in American politics. The American empire is triumphant, unchallenged, complete with air wars, military occupation, and the expansion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. In the wake of Kosovo, anti-NATO sentiment ran high in both the streets of Europe and, less frantically, among many European statesmen. European leaders began discussing the formation of a Western European Union to serve as a military arm of the more economically inclined European Union. As troubling to Old Rightists was the knee-jerk American policy of economic sanctions.
