Aimless and masochist: Our topsy-turvy foreign policy: Ep. 216

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Call this the budding creation of “hawks against stupid interventions.” Jordan Schachtel, national security correspondent for CR, joins us for a deep dive into foreign policy and defense strategy. Be prepared to be educated, as we pack endless information into the show to demonstrate how our foreign policy priorities are backwards and contradictory. We delve into Africa, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. For far too long, the foreign policy establishment has offered us false dichotomies on strategy and alliances. It’s time to finally define a conservative “America First” foreign policy. Of course, national security begins with homeland security, and securing Mexico should be our biggest priority, yet it is not cool in foreign policy circles to discuss anything that doesn’t involve an aimless Islamic civil war. Show links Dos and dont's in the Middle East Support Attorneys United for a Secure America Catch-and-release and sanctuaries fueling drugs, Middle Eastern migrants, and border violence U.S. sending special forces and weapons to … Hezbollah! … while we fight Assad Welcome to the new ISIS from the same Sunni insurgency we keep battling and then helping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Conservative Conscience.
0:04.0	In Washington, politicians are full of half-trudes and hot air.
0:08.0	The Conservative Conscience is here to help you cut through the rhetoric and noise and explore the politically right way to think about the issues.
0:14.0	You'll dive into one of the most insightful conservative minds in America.
0:18.0	Conservative Reviews Senior Editor, Daniel Horowitz.
0:21.0	Using pure common sense and ignoring the groupthink,
0:24.0	Daniel breaks down the major issues in Washington.
0:27.0	You are now entering the Conservative Conscience.
0:31.0	And welcome back to the Conservative Conscience.
0:33.0	Here at Conservative Reviews, Northern Command in Maryland,
0:37.0	on the Westwood One Podcast Network, it is Friday.
0:41.0	Yes, you are hearing from me for the fourth time this week.
0:43.0	Thank God we've had the time to put out a fourth episode this week.
0:47.0	Call it Foreign Policy Friday.
0:49.0	We spoke so much about domestic policy.
0:52.0	I really wanted to get to foreign policy this week.
0:55.0	And yeah, it is Friday, late April, April 20th,
0:59.0	but it feels like it's early March because of global warming.
1:03.0	But so I don't strangle myself and break things because I am just in a really bad way.
1:07.0	And I know those of you who follow me on Twitter recognize that because
1:11.0	the courts have accomplished more in the last 48 hours.
1:15.0	Since Congress, by the way, went on vacation mid Wednesday,
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