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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/24/21 Capt. John Vaughn on His Experience at the Kabul Airport During the Evacuation
Scott is joined by U.S Army Captain John Vaughn who spent two weeks in Kabul assisting with the evacuation. Vaughn gives some details on his experience and addresses the concerns about military equipment falling into the hands of the Taliban. He also speaks to the scale of the operation and commends his fellow soldiers for moving a massive amount of people and equipment so quickly. Finally, Vaughn talks about how his experience during the suicide attack at the airport gates and gives his thoughts on America’s future with Afghanistan.
Discussed on the show:
- “Evacuation Eyewitness: What I Saw in Kabul” (Libertarian Institute)
- BBC reporting about eyewitness claims that soldiers fired into the crowd after the suicide attack.
John Vaughn is an active duty officer in the United States Army. He graduated from West Point in 2013 and commissioned as an Infantry officer before becoming an Information Technology Systems Engineer for the U.S. Army. He has served as a Platoon Leader at Fort Bliss, TX, as a Company Commander at Fort Benning, GA, and as an instructor at the Army’s Officer Candidate School. He has deployed to Kuwait and Afghanistan, and has been published in the Army’s Signal Magazine.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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03/11/09 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the recent Chinese naval conflict with the U.S., the increase in China’s regional stature and popular nationalism, the broad spectrum of U.S. interest groups that have grievances with China and why open relations are preferable to military confrontation.
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03/09/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his forthcoming documentary film Outside the Law, the developing story of Binyam Mohamed, the innocence of the vast majority of those held at Guantanamo over the years, the still-standing court ruling which upheld the ‘enemy combatant’ power of the president and the continuing lack of process for those held in various U.S. dungeons in Afghanistan.
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03/06/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Last week I twice spoke with Robert Murphy of the Free Advice blog and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism.
The archive of both interviews has finally arrived.
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03/05/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses the balance of power between different foreign policy factions, the work record of Dennis Ross from Oslo Accord negotiator to WINEP associate, the centrality of uranium refining in U.S./Iran relations, the resurgence of the Arab League and the National Intelligence Council appointment saga of Chas Freeman.
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03/04/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Huber, regular Antiwar.com columnist, discusses the confusion among U.S. policy makers on Afghanistan strategy, the excessive praise given Gen. Petraeus for producing a temporary stalemate by bribing Iraqi Sunnis, the re-branding of Gen. Ray Odierno as a strategic mastermind and the slippery slope of extended Iraq withdrawal deadlines.
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03/04/09 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Alan Bock, senior editorial writer at the Orange County Register and regular Antiwar.com columnist, discusses the escalating drug-related violence in Mexico, how the Prohibition regulatory framework idled by the 21st Amendment found a second life policing marijuana use, the allure of black-market profits and the counterproductive and predictable results of the war on drugs.
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03/03/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the Justice Department’s release of post-9/11 Bush administration legal opinion memos, the assertion of executive supremacy over the first and fourth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the possible scope of unknown Bush legal shenanigans and why blue-ribbon investigative committees aren’t always bipartisan cover-ups.
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03/03/09 – Noam Chomsky – The Scott Horton Show
Noam Chomsky, author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, discusses the roots of U.S. imperialism, the often overlooked opportunity costs of empire, the exaggerated strength of U.S. economic rivals, the continuation of the Great Game into the 21st century, how the Western World’s observance of the Durand Line exacerbates problems in Afghanistan, the empire’s loss in Iraq, the U.S. doctrine of punishing Iran just to make an example out of them and the Israeli policy of incremental displacement of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories.
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