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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2132 The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

John Mueller of The Ohio State University joins us to discuss why our default posture shouldn't be Munich 1938, in a discussion of his book, The Stupidity of War.

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Show notes for Ep. 2132

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, Episode 2132.

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Hello everybody, Tom Woods here and I am delighted to welcome to the program today, John Mueller,

0:44.6

from the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University.

0:48.0

He's also a senior fellow of the Cato Institute.

0:50.6

And he has a book that I find intriguing and extremely eye-opening,

0:56.1

called The Stupidity of War, American Foreign Policy,

1:00.0

and the Case for Complacency. Professor Mueller, welcome to the show.

1:03.5

Thanks great to be here.

1:05.1

This is such a tremendous book, I was just telling you, on page 16.

1:08.8

This line jumped out at me because it just runs so contrary to the way most of us have been raised to think.

1:15.1

It's not page 16 in the overall number of pages, it's page 16 in the book.

1:19.1

Okay, so it runs like this.

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