Ep. 56 Afghanistan 101
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tom asks veteran journalist Eric Margolis for an overview of the Afghanistan situation, from 2001 to today. Visit Eric at his website, and check out his most recent book American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll be afraid of you, dad. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:43.1 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show welcome everybody it is |
| 0:59.0 | Tuesday December 10th 2013 we are talking foreign policy today and in particular |
| 1:05.7 | what I want to do today is talk to an expert on the subject of Afghanistan, because I think there are a lot of us who are against the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. We'd like to get the troops out of Afghanistan, but really don't know a lot of details about it. |
| 1:22.6 | You know, really don't know the ins and outs of who's who and what's going on and how did it get started |
| 1:27.8 | and all that. And so I wanted to bring on Eric Margolis because he has traveled more widely |
| 1:34.0 | than anybody I know and who also has the mind of a journalist and a historian. And I thought |
| 1:41.9 | he'd really be the ideal person to sort of do a, you know, kind of |
| 1:45.5 | an Afghanistan 101 for us here. But before we do that, a couple quick notes, I've got a lot of |
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