04/03/17 – Peter Van Buren on his novel Hooper’s War and the US’s entanglement in current real wars – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 3, 2017 | Interviews

Peter Van Buren, a writer and retired US Foreign Service Officer, discusses his fictional account of an alternate WWII where the US invades Japan, in an exploration of how war creates moral injuries that never heal. He also discusses President Trump’s increasing use of drone strikes, why taking out ISIS won’t end Iraq’s problems, and the partisan stupidity that dominates American politics.

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