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Dec 2022
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Carnage and Blowback in American Foreign...

ANDREW HEATON
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Scott Horton wants America to go home. He does not think we should be the world's policeman. And when we try to be, our foreign policy incites blowback, foreign chaos, and unnecessary bloodshed. He joins to discuss isolationism and non-interventionism.

 

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