620 // A History of Terrorists w/ Prof. Michael E. Neagle
Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I will give a caveat to this in the sense that Escobar will publicly kind of couch what he does |
| 0:06.4 | in some sort of political sheen. He was elected as a, or he was it an alternate member of |
| 0:13.5 | the Colombian Congress in the early 1980s. And he will publicly, privately flirt with notions |
| 0:20.3 | of maybe becoming the Colombian president someday. |
| 0:22.9 | He railed against the American extradition treaty with Columbia saying it was a violation of |
| 0:27.8 | Colombian sovereignty. But I think that's all kind of window dressing. Political and social stuff |
| 0:32.2 | really wasn't driving him. It was to protect his business. So that's the only caveat in there. |
| 0:36.7 | So he did talk politics a little bit, but I think that's really cover for, for the business that he was running |
| 0:42.3 | and to protect it by any means necessary. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah. In today's new episode of CrawlSpace, we speak with author Michael E. Nagel about his new book, |
| 1:24.4 | Chasing Bandits, America's Long War on Terror. |
| 1:27.1 | This is a really interesting conversation, Lance. Certainly not a typical conversation |
| 1:29.6 | that we have here on crawl space, but I loved it. What did you think? I loved it as well, |
| 1:35.0 | and I love that we are able to have this conversation on crawl space because it's not true |
| 1:39.7 | crime exactly. It is a bit true crime adjacent. So it's always fun to kind of go outside of our comfort |
| 1:44.8 | zone a little bit and have somebody on to talk about these things. Yeah, this book, |
| 1:49.1 | Chasing Bandits, it's all about the long history of the United States intervening into other |
| 1:55.0 | countries and labeling this a war on terror and how before 9-11, were doing it but 9-11 was sort of that benchmark moment |
| 2:03.2 | where it became part of everybody's common vernacular you know we the war on terror became a thing |
| 2:09.2 | what mike is doing in his book is bringing it back to generations beforehand this is not a new |
| 2:14.7 | thing and the way that we have historically labeled the individuals, |
| 2:19.5 | and this book is called chasing bandits, how we've labeled them in order to create a perception |
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