Scott Horton

Iran supported al-Qaeda in Bosnia in 1995 as a favor to Bill Clinton because they were trying to suck up to the United States is why they supported al-Qaeda in Bosnia.

Yes, my position is whatever you say it is, not what I say it is.

No, I'm just trying to summarize.

You know who's the last person who told me I need to beware about overlearning the lessons of Iraq?

It was Charlie Savage from the New York Times when on the subject was his absolute ridiculous hoax that Russia was paying the Taliban to murder American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2020, which ruined Trump's potential, which he was floating travaloons about withdrawing in the summer of 2020, which would have absolutely

Scott, you said it.

You said it.

You said it.

Scott, you're like flood the zone with as much detail as possible.

You know what he resorted to?

He said...

Well, it's true that there was a rumor I was reporting on.

That's called learning the lessons of Iraq, not over-learning them.

Yeah, I mean, look, there are a million wonderful things about this country, the land, the people, our culture, and our resources, and everything.

And the kind of society that we could build, not with a controlled system, but with just a pure free market capitalist system in this country, where people are allowed to own their property and prove its value and exchange it on the market and build this country up, we would be living in...

comparatively a paradise compared to what we have now.

And if you look at the opportunity costs just since the end of the Cold War on all that has been wasted on militarism in the Middle East especially, but also in Eastern Europe and in East Asia, all of that wealth put here could have gone much more to

Something like perfecting our society.

It's always an unfinished project so that then we really have something to point to the rest of the world and say, this is how you're supposed to do it.

Not like that.