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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan
Eric Margolis talks with Scott about the situation in Afghanistan as American forces continue to withdraw. Of course, the last few days have seen nonstop headlines proclaiming an utter disaster in the country, many of them excoriating President Biden for having screwed things up so badly. But Scott and Margolis remind us just how much worse things could be. Margolis points out that for one thing, some Afghan government officials seem to have been quietly preparing for a transfer of power far in advance, such that when U.S. forces pulled out, they were prepared to more or less let the Taliban take over. You don’t have to be a fan of the Taliban to realize that this relatively peaceful transfer of power is far better than the alternative: months of bloody and destructive fighting followed by victory for the Taliban anyway. Even in areas like women’s rights, Margolis explains that the current generation of Taliban leadership isn’t as harsh as their fathers and grandfathers—Taliban spokesmen have been quick to reassure the West that they want women to play a bigger role in society. The last thing Americans should do is let war hawks use the chaos in Afghanistan as an excuse for us to go back into the country and stay forever.
Discussed on the show:
- David Patraeus’ Counterinsurgency Manual
- “Against All Enemies: US trained Uighur terrorists” (Eric Margolis)
- “The U.S. is secretly helping the Taliban fight ISIS in Afghanistan” (The Washington Post)
Eric Margolis is a foreign affairs correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj. Follow him on Twitter @EricMargolis and visit his website, ericmargolis.com.
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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08/11/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, discusses the slightly less violent, yet still horrific, conditions in Iraq, the fear and violence that dominates daily life there, the various factions influencing Maliki, the Sunni ‘Awakening’ movement and the volatile tensions in Kurdistan.
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08/08/08 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative reporter Joe Lauria discusses the series he co-wrote for the London Times about the Sibel Edmonds case, including the 30 year Washington connection to the A.Q. Kahn nuclear black-market operation, the difficulty in corroborating stories about such a secretive subject, the inability of American mainstream media to diverge from the status quo, how the Tinner family fits into the story and the history of the military-industrial-congressional complex as told in the new book he’s co-authored with former senator Mike Gravel, A Political Odyssey.
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08/08/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses his recent article ‘How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq,’ the revelations in Ron Suskind’s book, the systemic cherry-picking of intelligence to justify the decision to invade Iraq, George Tenet’s priorities, Doug Feith’s possible involvement in the forgeries and the schism between America’s imperial intentions and outcomes.
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08/07/08 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News and author of Beyond the Green Zone, discusses the new effort by the Maliki government to allow the former Sunni insurgency – now known at the ‘Sons of Iraq’ or ‘Concerned Local Citizens’ – into the police forces in Baquba in order to fight ‘al Qaeda in Iraq,’ the various militias’ within the government and their primary loyalties, precarious politics in Kirkuk, Maliki’s statements in favor of American withdrawal, the irony of the U.S. backing the also-Iranian-backed Dawa Party and Supreme Islamic Council since the elections of ‘05 and danger to U.S. troops in the event of war with Iran.
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08/07/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor to Harper’s magazine, discusses the ‘conviction’ of Bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan, the distinctions which crimes constitute ‘war crimes,’ the illegitimacy of the military tribunals and how they are being timed to help the Republican Presidential campaign, the need to uphold the Nuremberg Principles, Cheney’s central role in the administration, how he allowed top al Qaeda to escape into Pakistan, how the charade of our moral supremacy is exposed by our legal hypocrisies and the improbability of prosecution for the Bush regime’s crimes.
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08/05/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell, discusses the new revelations in Ron Suskind’s new book about an alleged White House order behind the forged link between Saddam Hussein and Mohamed Atta and his work which debunked any real Iraq-al Qaeda connection in January of 2003.
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08/05/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, author and legal blogger for Salon.com, discusses his new radio show, new developments in the 2001 anthrax case, the FBI’s smear campaign against dead physicist Bruce Ivins, media trumpeting of government claims, the widespread fear created and power gained by the anthrax attacks and questions about Washington insiders’ taking Cipro before the attacks.
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08/01/08 – Warren Richey – The Scott Horton Show
Warren Richey, crime reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses the first Guantanamo military commission ‘trial’ of Bin Laden’s driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the extremely low bar the government is trying to set as precedent by trying such a low level bin Laden associate first, Hamdan’s doom to stay detained as an enemy combatant for the rest of his life whether convicted or aquitted of war crimes, the possibility that the Boumedine case could be used as precedent for those ‘convicted’ at Guantanamo to appeal to civilian federal courts, the ability of the federal courts to handle terrorism cases as they did in the 1990s and some remaining open questions.
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