Commenter MarkN at TCS has this response to my suggestion that libertarians take a cue from their work during the Cold War and promote classical liberal ideas in the Arab world:

I can see it now: a band of libertarian gideons placing copies of ‘Man, Economy and State’ in the bedside tables of hotels in the Middle East. That’ll work, sure.

No wonder no one takes us seriously.

I obviously don’t agree with him that the idea is ridiculous (it being mine and all), but the point here is to get libertarians to start thinking about an affirmative, non-minimalist foreign policy. It’s a discussion that has barely begun.