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Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Summary
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, and for three decades a staunch critic of US military interventionism. This epic 10+ hour conversation covers the entire history of US foreign policy from the Cold War to the War on Terror, examining the devastating costs: 900,000+ direct deaths, 3.6 million indirect deaths, and $8 trillion spent. Horton argues that nearly every US military intervention has failed to accomplish its stated objectives while creating blowback that leads to more conflict.
Key Points
- From Cold War to War on Terror (0:45) - Historical overview
- Iraq War 1 (53:43) - Gulf War analysis
- Bin Laden (1:21:48) - Origins of al-Qaeda
- Afghanistan War (2:21:09) - 20 years of failure
- Iraq War 2 (2:36:05) - WMD lies
- Military Industrial Complex (3:02:30) - Eisenhower’s warning
- Scott’s Life Story (3:41:56) - Path to anti-war activism
- Iraq War 2 Continued (4:11:45) - Deeper analysis
- Syria (5:03:14) - Proxy war
- Iraq War 3 (5:56:32) - ISIS and aftermath
- Somalia (6:08:59) - Endless intervention
- Iran (6:14:26) - Nuclear tensions
- Israel-Palestine (7:04:12) - US support for Israel
- Cold War 2.0 (8:53:49) - Russia, China, new tensions