Ep. 486 The Syrian Refugee Crisis: What's the Cause?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Country after country is scrambling to deal with the thousands of refugees pouring into Europe. But the neoconservatives are also taking the opportunity to argue that if only the West had intervened in Syria, the situation would never have deteriorated to this point. Daniel McAdams joins me to evaluate this story.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 486. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, if you're interested in more libertarian podcasts, let me recommend to you the |
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| 0:22.8 | Stapleton. Monday through Friday, he gives you a libertarian look at the news. Check him out at |
| 0:27.7 | jasonstapleton.com. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking today about the refugee crisis, |
| 0:34.8 | the Syrian refugees pouring into Europe. What's going on here? What is, |
| 0:40.2 | what are the circumstances that led to this? And who would be responsible for creating a situation |
| 0:46.2 | in Syria such that so many people feel the urge to just up and leave and wind up in a |
| 0:52.9 | completely different society? So there are a lot of |
| 0:55.8 | different sorts of questions we want to look at today. And joining us to help us understand this |
| 1:00.2 | phenomenon is Daniel McAdams Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, |
| 1:07.4 | which I urge you to check out at ronpaul institute.org. Daniel is also the co-host with Ron Paul |
| 1:14.2 | himself on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, and you can check that out at Ron Paul Liberty Report.com. |
| 1:22.7 | Stay tuned after my conversation with Daniel because I've got the details now on how you can get to the |
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| 1:35.5 | and I am going to let you in on exactly how to do that. So stay tuned. But right now, |
| 1:42.1 | let's talk to Daniel McAdams. Daniel, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:45.1 | Hi, Tom. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:47.1 | We're looking at this refugee crisis that's going on now, coming from the Middle East into Europe, |
| 1:53.9 | and you've been writing a little bit about it. You've linked me to the Diana Johnstone article, |
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