12/14/09 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 14, 2009 | Interviews

Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch.com, discusses the multitude of ‘other’ surges in Afghanistan overshadowed by the troop deployments, the costs excluded from Obama’s 30 billion dollar surge estimate, the unfounded belief that a Democratic president can’t end a war, the difficulty of defining — much less achieving — success in Afghanistan and how Bush’s wars continue even though the geopolitical strategy that created them is gone.

Play

Listen to The Scott Horton Show