Author Scott Horton: Time to End the War in Afghanistan

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Scott Horton, author of a new book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, argued that the ongoing war in Afghanistan is a “betrayal of American soldiers and Marines” at an event Tuesday in Washington, DC.

“The hawks always hide behind the enlisted men with all of their arguments for any intervention and [say] the only way to support the troops is to support their policy,” he said. “That’s frankly just wrong, especially in the United States of America where it’s supposed to be a limited constitutional republic.”

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