Ep. 1309 The Syria Withdrawal: Three Cheers

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Scott Horton joins me to discuss the reality of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, and the hysterical establishment response, from center-left to center-right. We also discuss fears about the fate of the Kurds, whose safety has been used to justify a continued U.S. presence.

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0:37.5	Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking to Scott Horton today because Donald Trump has just
0:42.5	announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. And as you can imagine, the usual suspects are
0:49.0	hysterical. We've got left liberals who just oppose anything Trump does regardless. If he added troops, they'd be upset. Although most of those people are for the empire, so that's probably not even true. Forget the center left. They're just hopeless on foreign policy. And then, of course, you've got the neocon right. You've got the media. They're all like hyenas over this. So I wanted to talk to Scott about what it really does mean. What is the
1:13.2	significance of this and what is likely to happen and what's it all about? What is the U.S. mission
1:18.0	in Syria in the first place? We're going to sort all this out. Scott, as you know, is the resident
1:23.3	foreign policy expert in the libertarian world. He's the host of the Scott Horton show.
1:28.4	You can check that out at Scott Horton.org.
1:30.2	He also hosts anti-war radio on KPFK 90.7 in Los Angeles.
1:35.2	And he is the author of Fool's Errant, Time to End the War in Afghanistan,
1:40.2	which I cannot recommend to you highly enough.
1:42.8	Scott, welcome back.
1:43.9	Hey, thanks, Tom, for having me.
1:45.4	All right, I need to talk to you. The world needs to hear from you at a time like this.
1:50.2	Because, I mean, people have lost their freaking minds. I need you to hear what, this is on my feed here, what Mia Farrow said just yesterday.
2:03.5	Now, Mia Farrow was like some love child of the 60s, and here she is repeating neocon talking points.
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