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🗓️ 13 January 2016
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Here's one of the big issues libertarians have to deal with: wouldn't you favor military intervention to prevent some horrifying atrocity? Laurie Calhoun joins me to take on this hard question.
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0:51.5 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the show. We're talking today about |
0:54.9 | humanitarian intervention. This is a very, very commonly heard argument in favor of military |
1:03.1 | involvement in the affairs of other countries. Well, we have to get involved for the sake of |
1:08.0 | helping people who are suffering in one way or another. Maybe they're suffering at |
1:11.7 | the hands of some government or at the hands of some bad people or whatever, and therefore we |
1:17.1 | need military intervention. So it's the kind of argument that libertarians have to wrestle with |
1:22.7 | at one time or another. And joining us to talk about this today is our old friend now, Lori Calhoun, |
1:29.3 | who is a research fellow of the Independent Institute, and she is also the author of a couple of |
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1:41.6 | We Kill Because We Can, from soldiering to assassination in the Dron Age. |
1:48.4 | Before I turn to Lori Calhoun, let me tell you a programming note here. |
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