The Tom Woods Show, episode 918.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. A couple weeks ago, I read an article by Andrew Basevich, who's

retired from Boston University, who's a scholar of international relations and war, and he's generally non-interventionist.

I interviewed him back when I used to guest host The Peter Schiff Show.

Well, anyway, he's got this interesting article up on 24 questions that are ignored by the Washington elite and the media.

And these are not crazy off-the-wall questions that only oddballs would want to ask.

These are the sorts of questions anybody should presumably want the answers to.

And yet, not only do we not get the answers, we don't even get the questions.

And I thought it might be useful to go over some or all of them,

not so much so that I can answer them because they're really meant to be rhetorical questions, really,

but just to indicate how impoverished the discussion of these topics really is. So, for example,

he says that since the first one involves accomplishing the mission.

So the U.S., since the immediate aftermath of World War II, has been committed to defending

key allies in Europe and East Asia. And then these security guarantees were extended to the

Middle East as well. So the question is when and under

what circumstances can Americans expect that maybe some of these countries might take responsibility

for managing their own affairs? Is this just going to go on indefinitely? Second question,

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