I was on C-Span’s Washington Journal yesterday, talking about
Syria and related issues from a libertarian perspective. Click
above to watch (about 45 minutes total) or
watch at C-SPAN. If my Twitter feed is any indication, it’s a
pretty lively and provocative discussion with host Steve Scully and
a wide range of callers.

@nickgillespie
@cspanwj You’ve blown
their minds. Good job!

— American Hero, Joe (@American_hero) September
1, 2013

The news commentary site Mediaite (and a number of other
places, including The Daily Caller) have singled out my comments on
Weekly Standard Editor William Kristoal and Washington Post
columnist Charles Krauthammer for special attention:

“Let’s be blunt,” Gillespie said. “[Kristol] has essentially
zero wins in his column. When I think of the foreign policy mastery
that comes out of theWeekly Standard, which was an
instrumental mouthpiece for the Bush administration, and before
that they were calling for intervention throughout the Balkans—In
their short existence, they have never met a war they didn’t
like.”

“For all of his plaudits, he has no credibility on foreign
policy,” Gillespie continued. “Every decision that he has pushed
and urged on America—including before 9/11, to start getting really
antagonistic militarily with China—has been wrong. It’s about time
that we stop paying that much attention to a kind of perspective on
military action that coming out of the Weekly
Standard.”

Gillespie also dismissed Krauthammer’s criticism of Obama’s
alleged inaction.

“I’m not sure what Charles Krauthammer can point to, to say,
‘Look, I said we should go into Iraq, and that’s a great thing, and
we should go into Afghanistan, and that’s a great thing,” Gillespie
said.

“People who are interested in going to war are always in favor
of war, and then they always criticize when war doesn’t go well,”
Gillespie said. “Pundits, every once in a while, should be held
accountable for their past recommendations, and these guys have a
track record that is god-awful.”

Read the Mediaite piece here.

And take two minutes to watch “3 Reasons Not to Go to War with
Syria”:

I was on C-Span’s Washington Journal yesterday, talking about
Syria and related issues from a libertarian perspective. Click
above to watch (about 45 minutes total) or
watch at C-SPAN. If my Twitter feed is any indication, it’s a
pretty lively and provocative discussion with host Steve Scully and
a wide range of callers.

@nickgillespie
@cspanwj You’ve blown
their minds. Good job!

— American Hero, Joe (@American_hero) September
1, 2013

The news commentary site Mediaite (and a number of other
places, including The Daily Caller) have singled out my comments on
Weekly Standard Editor William Kristoal and Washington Post
columnist Charles Krauthammer for special attention:

“Let’s be blunt,” Gillespie said. “[Kristol] has essentially
zero wins in his column. When I think of the foreign policy mastery
that comes out of theWeekly Standard, which was an
instrumental mouthpiece for the Bush administration, and before
that they were calling for intervention throughout the Balkans—In
their short existence, they have never met a war they didn’t
like.”

“For all of his plaudits, he has no credibility on foreign
policy,” Gillespie continued. “Every decision that he has pushed
and urged on America—including before 9/11, to start getting really
antagonistic militarily with China—has been wrong. It’s about time
that we stop paying that much attention to a kind of perspective on
military action that coming out of the Weekly
Standard.”

Gillespie also dismissed Krauthammer’s criticism of Obama’s
alleged inaction.

“I’m not sure what Charles Krauthammer can point to, to say,
‘Look, I said we should go into Iraq, and that’s a great thing, and
we should go into Afghanistan, and that’s a great thing,” Gillespie
said.

“People who are interested in going to war are always in favor
of war, and then they always criticize when war doesn’t go well,”
Gillespie said. “Pundits, every once in a while, should be held
accountable for their past recommendations, and these guys have a
track record that is god-awful.”

Read the Mediaite piece here.

And take two minutes to watch “3 Reasons Not to Go to War with
Syria”: