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Scott Horton - Origins of the War on Terror

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Scott Horton joins us today to discuss the origins of the war on terror and his new book, “Enough Already”. Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #210 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Michael Medved.

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Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, once said that God offers special protection

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to drunkards, lost dogs, children, and the United States of America.

0:14.6

We'll explore that special protection

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and what it means in the American miracle.

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Subscribe to the American Miracle on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. All right, what's going on guys?

0:47.8

All right, what's going on guys?

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Welcome to another episode of Bro history

0:50.7

at Henry Zamota and Danny of Delgebar. On today's show we're

0:54.2

joined by Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute

0:58.2

editorial director of anti-war.com and the host of the Scott Horton show.

1:03.6

Scott also has is the author of two books,

1:06.4

Fools Aaron, which is really just an incredible book in Afghanistan.

1:10.8

It's where I get most of my talking points on Afghanistan right from that book and then enough already

1:16.7

Time to end the war on terrorism which was published earlier this year and

1:21.8

Everyone listening right now this book I mean I feel like this is a real major accomplishment and it's really worth your time to read this

1:30.0

When I was getting started in foreign policy or when I was starting to get interested in foreign policy

1:36.0

I wish this book had been available because it it catches you up on everything you need to know. And it's a relatively easy read,

1:44.8

like you're going to finish it within like a week or so.

1:47.3

And it's not like ku-koo crazy stuff

1:50.0

or topics that are so esoteric that you have to be a huge dork to be interested in.

1:55.0

It really paints the narrative of US foreign policy in the Middle East and you know

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