How did we wind up at war with Iran? Scott Horton explains.

(00:00) The History of Why Iran Is Such a Global Focal Point

(11:16) The Jimmy Carter Doctrine

(22:29) The Brutality of the Iraq/Iran War

(45:32) Bill Clinton’s Fatal Mistake That Drove America Into the Middle East

(55:08) What You Don’t Know About the 1990s Terror Attacks

(1:37:02) The Real Meaning of the Word “Neocon”

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and author of Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine.

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