On April 28th I gave a talk on Afghanistan to the Tarrant County (Ft. Worth) Libertarian Party.
(Video starts in the middle of an anecdote about Bill Clinton claiming he would have had to wipe all of Kandahar City off the map in order to get bin Laden.)
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John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...
