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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 886 Trump Launches Strike on Syria

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As if his warnings to Barack Obama about intervention in Syria had never been uttered, Donald Trump ordered a missile strike on Syria yesterday. Scott Horton joins me to discuss this horrific mess.

Show notes for Ep. 886

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 886.

0:03.1

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.9

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:15.8

Just terrible, terrible news of the strike on Syria.

0:19.8

Just, just awful. So I just took everything off my calendar.

0:24.8

I brought Scott Horton on. We're going to talk today about what in the world is going on with

0:29.2

Donald Trump and Syria. Scott, as you may know, is the host of the Scott Horton show. You're

0:33.8

not going to find better foreign policy analysis than that. I trust Scott, respect him very much.

0:40.1

She's my go-to guy on stuff like this. Definitely check him out at Scott Horton.org.

0:45.6

The new episodes of his show as they are released are posted first at Libertarian Institute.org slash Scott Horton Show.

0:53.8

Scott, welcome back.

0:55.2

Thanks, Tom.

0:56.1

Well, I don't know what to say here.

0:58.3

I just don't know what to say.

0:59.5

I guess we have to accept that everybody does this.

1:04.8

But, you know, given that Trump said the exact opposite, just four years ago in 2013 when he was saying Obama needs

1:15.7

congressional approval. No good is going to come of this. Yes, even though it's a gas attack,

1:21.1

you know, there's tragedy all over the world. We have to look after ourselves. Whatever.

1:26.8

And plus the Syrian rebels, who knows who these people are,

1:29.9

but this is not our fight and all this stuff. We don't need regime change. So when somebody says

1:35.4

those particular things, you would think they wouldn't say and do the exact opposite. I guess

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