Eric Garris Talks About Iraq With Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes

Antiwar.com Director Eric Garris spoke yesterday with Alan Colmes on Fox Radio about the rapid mission creep in Iraq (10 minutes):

Author: Scott Horton

Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s. Scott’s Twitter, YouTube, Patreon.

6 thoughts on “Eric Garris Talks About Iraq With Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes”

  1. Great interview. Eric is very articulate here.
    Some related points that can also be make on this matter:
    The US govt supposedly is directed by the US constitution. There is no basis in that for military intervention in the internal politics of foreign nations, no matter how much we like or dislike the parties.
    The UN and other NGOs are established to handle humanitarian crises, not the US military. The US could direct aid using neutral NGOs if requested. Not the Special Ops.
    The US govt spent hundreds of millions, if not billions, to supposedly "train" Iraqis for democratic self rule and internal peacekeeping by the Iraqi military. That obviously was a hugely expensive failure. If a rump religious group like ISIS can overwhelm the expensively trained Iraqi government forces, then absent direct US rule there, there is no way minor tinkering or selective intervention can make any lasting changes. How many times can such US failure (see Afghanistan, Libya, etc) occur without the American public realizing this approach is unworkable.

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