Scott Horton
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You know, geez, we had no way of knowing that he had violent tendencies of any kind, were willfully blind during his first term.
He bombed Afghanistan for four years straight, by the way.
Yeah, I mean, basically kept up air operations in the south of the country for like three out of the four years and killed tens of thousands of people.
And then, of course, he supported the Saudi and UAE war against the poor people of Yemen for four years straight, a war he, again, inherited from Obama, but kept going on for his entire time in power.
you know was ruthless in his destruction of the islamic state and finishing iraq war three there took all the gloves off and devolved command authority as far down the chain of command as possible same for somalia and um you know it's just finally finishing the audiobook of provoked and the very end of it is i wrote it after the election but before he's sworn in right the book came out in november after the election of 24 and uh
I cite in there a lot of reasons to be pessimistic about Trump's foreign policy in his second term.
You know, as bad as we needed Ron Paul, we got Rudy Giuliani.
And that's really who Donald Trump is.
I'm reminded of an old argument I got in with Justin Raimondo about Trump back in 2016, where I says, Trump, I'm for and against everything.
Justin, wow, I really like about half of the things this guy says.
Like, I'm just sitting here going, yeah, I'm sorry.
This isn't going to work on me.
Call me too much of a purist myself, I guess.
But after, you know, essentially raising Ron Paul up to some sort of demigod type status in my mind, it's hard to compare another politician to him and not be too disappointed, you know?