Frank Ledwidge, a British former intelligence officer, discusses the futility of the war in Afghanistan (and the rest of the terror wars), which many of the world's countries have now been mired in for nearly two decades. Ledwidge begins by reminding us just how much...
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11/18/20 Dan Caldwell: Trump Should Get Out of Afghanistan Before Inauguration Day
by Scott Horton | Nov 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Dan Caldwell of Concerned Veterans for America about President Trump's plans to withdraw troops from the Middle East in what are looking to be his final weeks as president. The appointment of Colonel Douglas Macgregor to a senior role in the Pentagon...
11/18/20 Jacob Sullum on Trump’s Flimsy Election Fraud Case
by Scott Horton | Nov 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jacob Sullum about the allegations of widespread fraud in November's presidential elections. Sullum concedes that errors in counting, illegal votes and deliberate obfuscation do sometimes happen in isolated situations—but maintains that the widespread...
11/18/20 Kevin Gosztola on the Profiteers and War Hawks of the Biden Transition Team
by Scott Horton | Nov 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola discusses the abominable record of some of Joe Biden's key transition team officials, people who are likely to become high-level members of Biden's eventual cabinet. This list includes the usual war hawks and D.C. insiders, who are sure to return the...
11/14/20 Gareth Porter on Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is back for a retrospective on Trump's foreign policy. Despite campaigning on a relatively non-interventionist platform, and indeed despite explicitly denouncing the policies of the Bush and Clinton families along the way, Trump has not been especially...
11/13/20 Ray McGovern on the Revenge of an Outgoing Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern discusses the recent personnel changes in the Trump administration and what they could mean for his final months in office. McGovern thinks that John Brennan and his allies are getting nervous that as a lame duck, Trump might decide to simply release...
11/13/20 Doug Bandow on the Lost Opportunities of the Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Nov 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the missed foreign policy opportunities of the Trump administration. Bandow laments that Trump didn't push harder to get U.S. troops out of our wars in the Middle East, theorizing that he was worried the political cost in the eyes of...
11/13/20 Mike Maharrey: Saving the Republic by Abandoning the Empire
by Scott Horton | Nov 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center about the shameful state of U.S. foreign policy. In particular, Maharrey explains the way that congress has completely abdicated its role of declaring wars—instead, they have ceded that power fully to the...