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Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
Scott Horton ISBN 0692041206
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Scott Horton ISBN 0692041206
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This book by Scott Horton has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Scott Horton. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2025-08-24 and the most recent from 2026-05-15. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"After more than a decade and a half, the results are in. The U.S. government has been unable to achieve its goals in Afghanistan. Even worse, what state it has been able to achieve there is completely unsustainable and certain to fall apart when the occupation is finally called off, and America does come home. The politicans, generals, and intelligence officers behind this unending catastrophe, who always promise they can fix these problems with just a little bit more time, money and military force, have lost all credibility. The truth is America's Afghan war is an irredeemable disaster. It was meant to be a trap in the first place.
“Got Fool's Aaron on Afghanistan, enough already on the war on terrorism and provoked on Russia and Ukraine”— Scott Horton
The guest here is Scott Horton: Editorial director of Antiwar.com and director of the Libertarian Institute, host of The Scott Horton Show and 'Provoked' with Darryl Cooper. A longtime antiwar foreign-policy researcher and author of three books on America's post-9/11 wars. Antiwar historian Scott Horton argues America provoked its conflicts with Russia and Iran, and that the U.S. Middle East empire is now a bankrupt bluff.
“I make the case in both books and probably better in the second one um fool's air and enough already that they let Bin Laden go.”— Scott Horton
The guest here is Scott Horton: Director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of antiwar.com, and host of the Scott Horton Show, on which he has done over 6,000 interviews since 2003. He is the author of Provoked, Enough Already, Fool's Errand, and Hotter Than the Sun, criticizing US foreign policy and militarism for three decades. Anti-war historian Scott Horton traces how US interventionism, the military-industrial complex, and the Israel lobby provoked decades of war.
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