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🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudis was the subject of this Krugman column, which discusses and criticizes the Trump response. Foreign-policy expert Scott Horton joins us for this chilling episode.
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0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 163. |
0:05.7 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
0:10.4 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
0:15.1 | arrows of Krukman. |
0:16.3 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
0:20.3 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
0:24.6 | Hey everybody, Tom and Bob here, another episode of Contra Krugman, but we're joined today by a special |
0:28.7 | guest, which is a rare treat on Contra Krugman, and that is Scott Horton. And it's rare enough to |
0:34.3 | have a guest, but even rarer to have a repeat guest. Scott is the foreign policy guy in the libertarian world. He's the author of Fool's Errand, Time to End the War in Afghanistan. He hosts the Scott Horton show. You can follow him at scott horton.org. He's executive director of the Libertarian Institute at Libertarian Institute.org. Is that dot org, Scott? Yeah. Okay. And, uh, let's see, |
0:57.5 | editorial director at anti-war.com, I believe, and also the host of anti-war radio on KPFK in Los Angeles. |
1:04.9 | So all kinds of credentials Scott has got. And we want to talk to Scott in particular, because |
1:10.0 | this week we're talking about a |
1:12.2 | Kroogman column called Arms and the Very Bad Men, October 22, 2018, about Saudi Arabia and the |
1:21.3 | killing of that journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. So, Scott, let me take just a minute to just run very quickly through this |
1:29.7 | column and then we'll talk about what it all means. By now, we've all heard about the presumed |
1:36.3 | murder of this journalist at the hands of the Saudis. And on the other hand, we've had Trump |
1:41.6 | being very reluctant to make any moves or jump to any conclusions |
1:46.6 | and wanting to give them the benefit of the doubt. And saying things like, look, we have good |
1:50.9 | relationship with them and there are a lot of American jobs at stake with an arms deal we've got |
1:56.3 | with them. So let's make sure we keep our wits about us. And Krugman in this column is just letting Trump have it, |
2:04.4 | saying this is just outrageous, that first of all, there aren't particularly big economic |
2:09.3 | rewards at stake. But secondly, even if there were, you wouldn't really cite that to justify |
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