{"id":29780,"date":"2017-10-03T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2017-10-03T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:02:27","slug":"thaddeus-russell-interviews-scott-horton-about-his-new-book-fools-errand-time-to-end-the-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/thaddeus-russell-interviews-scott-horton-about-his-new-book-fools-errand-time-to-end-the-war-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thaddeus Russell Interviews Scott Horton About His New Book: <I>Fool&#8217;s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan<\/I>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Thaddeus Russell sat down for an extensive interview with Scott Horton on his new book <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/foolserrand.us\/\">Fool&#8217;s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xezg3WluxI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foolserrand.us\/\">Order the Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Horton is the author of the widely-acclaimed <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/foolserrand.us\/\">Fool&#8217;s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>and the host of the indispensable foreign policy radio program and podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/scotthorton.org\/tag\/antiwar-radio\/\">T<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/scotthorton.org\/tag\/antiwar-radio\/\">he Scott Horton Show<\/a>.&nbsp;Since 2003, he has conducted more than 4,500 interviews with journalists, politicians, former military leaders, lawyers and experts on foreign policy and war. Scott is also the managing director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertarianinstitute.org\/\">The Libertarian Institute<\/a> and the opinion editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/\">Antiwar.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thaddeus Russell teaches history and American studies at Occidental College. His most recent book is <i><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Renegade-History-United-States\/dp\/1416576134\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1507045172&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=A%2BRenegade%2BHistory%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates\">A Renegade History of the United States<\/a><\/i> (Free Press). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaddeusrussell.com\/\">Visit his website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Thaddeus Russell sat down for an extensive interview with Scott Horton on his new book Fool&#8217;s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. Order the Book Scott Horton is the author of the widely-acclaimed Fool&#8217;s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan&nbsp;and the host of the indispensable foreign policy radio program and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29784,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions\/29784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}