I was recently reading Rothbard's article titled "Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal," and came across this passage that got me thinking:
Having broken emotionally with the right wing, our tiny group of libertarians began to rethink many of our old, unexamined premises. First, we restudied the origins of the Cold War, we read our D.F. Fleming and we concluded, to our considerable surprise, that the United States was solely at fault in the Cold War, and that Russia was the aggrieved party. And this meant that the great danger to the peace and freedom of the world came not from Moscow or "international communism," but from the U.S. and its Empire stretching across and dominating the world.
Can anyone perhaps go into more detail on this point? The Cold War has always been of interest to me and wondered if someone could expand on what Rothbard's position.
Thanks.
Rothbard explained this in more detail in a number of other articles. Here's one that I found to be particularly useful.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard111.html