Veteran radio broadcaster and podcaster Scott Horton will discuss his new book Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. Scott Horton is Managing Director of The Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and 88.3 FM KUCR in Riverside, California, host of The Scott Horton Show and the Opinion Editor of Antiwar.com. Horton has conducted more than 4,500 interviews since 2003. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.
In this dynamic and wide-ranging presentation, Scott will explore uncomfortable and little known facts about U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. He will review the shifting rationales given for America's longest war and why they do not advance U.S. national interests.
Reviews
"Scott Horton's Fool's Errand is a deeply insightful and well-informed book on America's longest war, explaining why it remains as unwinnable as it ever was. It appears at an importantmoment as the Trump administration considers once again reinforcing failure." -- Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, author of TheAge of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
"An incisive, informative analysis of the Afghan fiasco and how we got there, scrubbed clean of propaganda and disinformation. Horton captures the situation very well indeed. I much enjoyed reading it." -- Eric S. Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet andAmerican Raj: Liberation or Domination? Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World
"Scott Horton's Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistanis a brilliant achievement and agreat read. I recommended it to the faculty at the Army Command and GeneralStaff College to be part of the course work. It's that important." -- Col.Douglas Macgregor, U.S. Army (ret.), author of Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
"A lot of people think of the war in Iraq as the bad war, but Afghanistan as the good and justifiable war. That convenient view does not survive Scott Horton's careful and incisive demolition." -- Thomas E. Woods Jr., author of Nullification: How to ResistFederal Tyranny in the 21st Century andRollback:Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse
"Why is the United States still fighting in Afghanistan? In this timely new book, Scott Horton explains why America's longest war is strategically misguided and why getting out would make the United States safer and advance America's broader national interests. Even readers who do not share Horton's libertarian world-view are likely to find themselves nodding in agreement: the war in Afghanistan has indeed become a 'fool's errand.'" -- Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs, Harvard University, author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
