Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

A couple of weeks back I invited on Bill Crystal of the Bulwark and various Republican

administrations, a standard bearer of the

Neocon and a huge proponent of what some would call robust American leadership

abroad and what others would call unfettered warmongering.

We talked about foreign policy and his view

that America creates stability and peace

by being involved abroad in terms of multilateral coalitions and in terms of pushing out

unwanted actors.

It was an interesting episode.

I think it was certainly the most controversial episode we did this year if not ever based on

comments but I think a good episode and in response a number of people wrote in and

said hey Heaton you just interviewed a guy who thinks America should be a global policeman, one of the

architects of the war in Iraq, to balance things out. Shouldn't you start an only fans account? Now listen I'm flattered by the myriad

demands from listeners that I start an only fans account and then provide fee-based nude videos on the internet.

And I might do that next year if I can ever develop a peck.

But it got me thinking.

You know, I really ought to balance out Bill Crystal by bringing on somebody with diametrically

opposed views to Bill Crystal. Someone who believes American foreign

policy interventions are incompetent at best and malicious at worst. Bring on an isolationist, a non-interventionist, a dove.

So I have invited on Scott Horton who many people have requested he is not only a

knowledgeable and forceful proponent of America standing down as global policemen and enjoying a role as a neutral

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