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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 343 What I Told Conservatives About Foreign Policy

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As a former neoconservative myself, I know how easy it is to get swept away by war propaganda. Here's my effort to convey this point, in a speech in Los Angeles, to some of the conservatives in the audience. Scroll down for show notes and mp3!

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Here’s a speech in which the audience was not completely on my side on foreign policy. I wondered if I should bring it up. I then rebuked myself for even asking the question, and went on ahead. Enjoy!

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Tom Woods Speaks at Nullify Now, Los Angeles

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Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, by Tom Woods
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Transcript

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0:00.0

In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:05.2

Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.0

Look no further.

0:16.7

You've found it.

0:18.5

Tom Woods.

0:21.2

Beware, citizen.

0:22.9

You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.8

Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 343.

0:40.4

Make sure and check out my events page, by the way,

0:46.5

Tom Woods.com slash events. I've got a bunch of events coming up here in early 2015. I'm going to Houston tonight, February 18th. I'm going to be at Florida Atlantic University, February 25th.

0:52.3

I did have an event there on the 26th as well,

0:55.5

but I'm told this is largely for law students and it's a room that holds only about 80 people.

1:00.5

So they're not really pushing it to the general public. So the 25th at Florida Atlantic University,

1:04.9

March 7th, Auburn University, April 9th, American University, April 11th, University of Cincinnati, April 25th, still hoping to get to Montreal, and in May, my plan is to be in Dublin, Ireland, on May 22nd.

1:21.6

All right, that's all at tomwoods.com slash events. Today, what I want to do is share with you a talk I gave back in I think 2011.

1:31.4

And you may actually have heard me refer to this talk before. It was an event that had a diverse

1:37.7

crowd. It was nullify now Los Angeles. You had people all across the spectrum and you clearly had some people who favored an interventionist foreign policy.

1:51.0

And I hadn't expected that.

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