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8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each other to create one massive failure. On top of that, Van Buren argues that policymakers were entirely removed from the costs of the war. And because of that, Van Buren predicts we will soon find ourselves in a similar conflict. Discussed on the show: We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren The Ghost of Tom Joad by Peter Van Buren...

8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Grant Smith about his recent article, which makes the case that the $3.8 billion in foreign aid given to Israel is on questionable legal grounds. It all comes back to Israel’s nuclear weapons, which the U.S. government has not officially acknowledged even exist. Because Israel is not a part of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is illegal for the U.S. to give them aid without making a specific case for why it’s necessary. Smith explains that to avoid this, Israel puts a lot of pressure on incoming Presidents to stay silent and not acknowledge the program. Smith also gives some...

8/20/21 Trita Parsi on the True Drivers of Middle East Instability

by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Trita Parsi about his paper concerning the intervention of Middle East powers over the last decade. Parsi and his coauthor Matthew Petti found that, contrary to the picture often painted of one malign actor driving all the instability, there are really six Middle Eastern countries engaging in a lot of foreign intervention. Iran, which is currently the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s favorite villain, is no more interventionist than the other five. And that most instability in the modern Middle East can be traced back to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Finally, Parsi...

8/20/21 Daniel McAdams on Hubris of the Foreign Policy Establishment

by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Daniel McAdams about his recent appearance on RT, where he challenged the Western Media's narrative about China. McAdams says they have it backward, criticizing China for its best actions, such as economic engagement, while seemingly wanting to import the worst of China's policies, like social credit scores. McAdams then speaks about how those in the Foreign Policy Establishment exist in an echo chamber. And that even when he had access to classified material, McAdams believes he was better informed by reading open-source websites like Antiwar.com. Discussed on the show: ...

8/20/21 Dave DeCamp: An Update on the Afghanistan Evacuation

by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Dave DeCamp joins the show to give an update on the effort to evacuate Westerners and their allies from Kabul. He explains that the evacuations are moving at a good clip. So far, the Biden Administration has resisted pressure to send troops into Kabul as there has been no indication that the Taliban are stopping Americans from entering the airport. While there are unconfirmed reports of Taliban fighters committing violence, DeCamp warns that some skepticism is appropriate since many special interests want the war to continue. Finally, DeCamp talks about a possible anti-Taliban insurgency...

Peter Bergen Is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy

by Scott Horton | Aug 23, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Famous journalist and terrorism expert Peter Bergen is making a big mistake. Give the man credit: he had the courage to travel to Tora Bora with Peter Arnett to interview bin Laden in person back in 1997. However, as seen in this clip from his appearance on C-SPAN 2’s Book TV on August 22, Bergen believes that Osama bin Laden’s claim in his 2004 speech that his strategy all along was to bog America down in war and "bleed us to bankruptcy" was just an after-the-fact rationalization for the failure of his real policy, which was simply to make the U.S.A. give up and run away, either right away...

7/22/21 Scott Horton Interview on Book TV About Enough Already

by Scott Horton | Aug 22, 2021 | Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UFpzw5leOE

8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis talks with Scott about the situation in Afghanistan as American forces continue to withdraw. Of course, the last few days have seen nonstop headlines proclaiming an utter disaster in the country, many of them excoriating President Biden for having screwed things up so badly. But Scott and Margolis remind us just how much worse things could be. Margolis points out that for one thing, some Afghan government officials seem to have been quietly preparing for a transfer of power far in advance, such that when U.S. forces pulled out, they were prepared to more or less let the Taliban...

8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan

8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

8/20/21 Trita Parsi on the True Drivers of Middle East Instability

8/20/21 Daniel McAdams on Hubris of the Foreign Policy Establishment

8/20/21 Dave DeCamp: An Update on the Afghanistan Evacuation

Peter Bergen Is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy

7/22/21 Scott Horton Interview on Book TV About Enough Already

8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan

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