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Why do you find the connection between free market-ism and a pro-war stance is 'intuitive'? I ask partly because I'm very much at opposite poles on those two issues.

I kind of see mine as a vaguely libertarian stance: I think people should be free to do what they like with their money, but in order for the market to be free, powerful countries should not be able to skew things by exerting military pressure. I'm basically all about the rights of the individual, and freedom from violence seems to me a vitally important aspect of individual freedom. I agree that the Iraq war is very largely an economic issue, but I think that war is an extremely bad way to do economics. I don't think that leads to a collectivist position on economics, though.