Ep. 475 Iran: The Myth of a Better Deal -- Interview with Stephen Walt
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There's been a lot of complaining about the Iran deal among neoconservatives. What is their plausible alternative? Stephen Walt of Harvard University joins us for a realistic look at the deal.
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| 0:46.9 | Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. What an honor it is today to have joining us, Stephen M. Walt, to talk about the Iran deal, because I've been getting |
| 0:56.8 | a lot of commentary in my Facebook feed from people who are dead set against it, and it's going |
| 1:02.8 | to give the Iranians a nuclear weapon and this and that. So I thought we could bear to hear a little |
| 1:07.1 | bit more about it. And Professor Walt had an article on this subject in foreign |
| 1:12.3 | policy. You can read it at foreign policy.com. I'll have the exact link on today's show notes page, |
| 1:18.1 | tomwoods.com slash 475, called The Myth of a Better Deal. So I thought this was an appropriate |
| 1:24.7 | moment to invite Professor Walt onto the show to help us |
| 1:27.8 | understand a little bit better what's going on, particularly because of all the people |
| 1:31.0 | I'm reading who are saying it's a terrible deal and it's going to do all kinds of terrible |
| 1:35.5 | things. Let's try and get a sober analysis of what's going on here. Stephen Walt is a professor |
| 1:41.1 | of international affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. |
| 1:45.9 | He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He has served as a |
| 1:51.0 | consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analysis, and the National Defense |
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