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7/9/21 Danny Sjursen on the Danger of an Afghanistan ‘Threequel’ from the Biden Administration
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which at the moment the Biden administration appears poised to follow through with. Sjursen is concerned about the response from the mainstream media and both party establishments—Republicans claim pulling out of Afghanistan makes America look weak; Democrats fear that pulling out will make Biden look weak politically. With this kind of bipartisan consensus, it’s extremely difficult to get things done that the establishment doesn’t like. (But it’s also a sure sign that the right thing to do is the exact opposite of whatever they both agree on.) All our time in Afghanistan, Sjursen says, hasn’t helped the people of that country, and it certainly hasn’t made Americans any safer.
Discussed on the show:
- “Spare Us an Afghan Threequel, Joe: Don’t Get Pulled Back In!” (Antiwar.com)
- “Truman As The BUTCHER of ASIA” (History News Network)
- “The Man Who Would Be King (1975)” (IMDb)
- An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. army major and former history instructor at West Point. He is the author of Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge, Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War and A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism. Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet.
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11/11/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the important new article ‘Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated‘ at RawStory, discusses the latest labyrinthine developments in the ‘stolen laptop’ documents story, how the weight of evidence indicates the documents are forgeries in the ‘Nigerian yellowcake’ tradition, the two oft-confused but very different IAEA investigations of Iran’s nuclear program and a future expose on Israeli involvement in the affair.
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11/11/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the credibility of claims that al Qaeda is planning an attack bigger than 9/11, the logic behind suicide terrorism, why a quick withdrawal from Iraq is unlikely, how U.S. security agencies are hamstrung by porous borders and ports, the role of Nigerian oil in future U.S. intervention Somalia and why al Qaeda wanted Obama to win the presidency.
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11/10/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributor to Harper’s magazine, discusses the Obama administration’s mandate to close Gitmo and defang the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the current status of unprecedented executive power, pardons from the Bush administration and possible adverse consequences for pardoned torturers under international law.
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11/10/08 – Woody Powell – The Scott Horton Show
Woody Powell, former executive director of Veterans For Peace, discusses his personal experiences serving in the Korean War, the difficulties and invective associated with anti-war activism in America and the virtues of advocating for peace rather than militarism on Armistice Day.
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11/06/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, blogger at Salon.com and the author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses his optimism on civil liberties, why we might safer with Rahm Emanuel out of the House, liberal interventionism and Carl Cameron’s obfuscation of information damaging to the McCain campaign.
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11/06/08 – Christopher Manion – The Scott Horton Show
Christopher Manion, contributor at LewRockwell.com, discusses the leftist origins of the neoconservatives, their hypocrisy on the UN, the danger that they will find a home in the Obama administration and the early years at National Review.
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11/05/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how the Maliki government surprised everyone by aggressively pressing for a U.S. withdrawal, the possible political landscape in a post-U.S. controlled Iraq, the delay of a Status of Forces Agreement, the difficulty of maintaining a bankrupt empire, the possibility that Obama’s bellicose statements about Iran’s nuclear program are due to ignorance rather than hawkishness, updates on the infamous stolen laptop and four Iranian peace offerings rejected by the U.S government.
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11/04/08 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, discusses advances in biometric surveillance technology, the use of DARPA computer algorithms in identifying militants from afar, how the military rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan allow the spontaneous execution of suspected insurgents, the historical tendency of governments to use technology designed for foreign battlefields on lawful domestic opposition, the dangerous doctrine of the unlimited presidency, the Supreme Court’s perilous liberal majority and TIA’s move to the NSA.
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