What exactly do libertarians have against military intervention?

[gotlucky]

@Malachi

Because it involves extortion, rapine, and murder in the best case scenario, and usually its even worse than that. People get mauled and paralyzed, entire families are destroyed. Ask yourself is you want someone in the military to intervene in your home and life by ransacking your private property and obstructing your travel with various missiles, some lethal and some simply injurious and frightening. Thats why.

There can only be one side that can be acting justly in a war, and as you have pointed out, when does that ever happen? I disagree with you that it must necessarily be the case that both sides must be aggressive, but in the real world, that it how it ends up. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.