Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies...
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9/3/21 Danny Sjursen on Afghanistan, Veterans and Counterinsurgency
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen and gets his reaction to the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Sjursen thinks the Taliban’s campaign to take control of the country may soon be studied in war colleges. He also thinks that Scott’s book Fool’s Errand should be studied at...
9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal was done prematurely from both a counterterrorism standpoint and in...
9/3/21 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Dan McKnight about the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation, which would block the use of National Guard troops in foreign combat operations without a declaration of war. McKnight gives background on what led him to become involved in political...
8/30/21 Jack Murphy on America’s Failed Drone Campaign in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Jack Murphy about the piece he wrote detailing the surge in drone strikes that took place under President Trump. Murphy explains how the whole project started when a distraught drone operator approached him. It quickly became clear that that drone...
8/27/21 Ashraf Nubani on Why Sirhan Sirhan, the Man Convicted for Killing Robert Kennedy, Ought to Be Released
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews attorney and writer Ashraf Nubani about his recent piece making a case for releasing Robert Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Nubani explains that Sirhan meets all the stated requirements of the parole board and that the pressure to keep him...
8/27/21 Daniel Davis on the Kabul Airport Bombing
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott speaks with Daniel Davis about the suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul Airport. Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away from being withdrawn from the country. He also believes that these...
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...
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Many Lives, One Suburb.
She just turned ninety, her body withering along with her mind. She dithers and smiles, walks slowly among the isles, she is never alone when outside, she remains lonely. She has always been a pensioner, never worked. Her husband died thirty years ago, now with three...
Interview: Establishing ‘Greater Israel’ By Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
On the Kyle Anzalone Show, I explain how Israel has always aimed to control all of former Palestine—without the Palestinians.
Atrocities Quote
I thought I had put this in Enough Already -- or something? But I want to put it here for safe keeping at least. As told to me by a former marine on Twitter: “To get one to commit the greatest atrocities, you do not need to convince evil men to do evil. You need to...
Mountain of Ambition
This is an older allegory thing that I wrote back in early 2022 The Mountain of Ambition Imagine if you will that upon the horizon sits an impressive mountain. It is the distant fixture that confronts you every day. So far away and yet, it stands as it...
Immigration Control and the Rule of Law
If you think that immigration control does not strike at the heart of the rule of law, you need to listen to this: https://youtu.be/Ierrs3E3Qow?si=8Szi0YiuDfh7Xgte
The Palestinians: The Libertarian Take
Even if the Palestinians are not a People, they nevertheless are and always have been people—that is, individual human beings with natural rights, namely, the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Like everyone else. But individuals can come...
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