Some libertarians (and Libertarians) have had doubts about Bob Barr’s antiwar credentials. Lately he’s been sounding the right notes — calling for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and no U.S. bases in the country, for example — but suspicions linger in certain quarters. Since won’t be president, the question is more or less moot, but there is good reason to trust Barr’s bona fides, however recently he may have come by them: he’s chosen as his issues coordinator the firmly antiwar libertarian Doug Bandow. Doug has written extensively about bringing the troops home from more than just Iraq, too — he’s for coming home from Korea and drawing down the forces in Europe as well.

Doug is solid on domestic policy as well, but it’s his presence as a foreign-policy adviser to Barr that’s most reassuring.