I was always amazed from day one at how many skeptics blindly supported the Iraq War, and to this day many of them continue to be downright militant about the War on Terror and anti-Muslim sentiment. But once again, their thought processes just don't conform to the methods of rationality. So if you want to defend the War on Terror to a proper rationalist, here's what you need to do—and what you need to avoid doing. 0:37 - Stop giving US interventionism a free pass 5:27 - Understand how interventionism changed the Muslim world 14:40 - Stop pretending all Muslims are terrorists 16:01 - Stop pretending the issue is their religion 21:12 - Don't pretend that the people who point this out are radical Muslims or terrorist sympathizers 22:35 - Don't pretend that the people who point this out are blaming the US for acts of terror 24:40 - Stop believing the same lies government always tells to get us into war 28:12 - Stop pretending that this isn't really about race The Drone Papers: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ Death From Above: Confessions of a Killer Drone Operator http://www.newsweek.com/confessions-lethal-drone-operator-396541 Pentagon document released under FOIA: http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Muslim Brotherhood (subtitled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4RK8bj2W0 Angel Rabasa - Profile http://www.rand.org/about/people/r/rabasa_angel.html Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S. https://web.archive.org/web/20141104034619/http://www.sjsu.edu/people/shantanu.phukan/courses/RELS162/s1/Shane-Killings%20in%20Norway%20Spotlight%20Anti-Muslim%20Thought%20in%20US.pdf Educating Rudy: The Ron Paul reading list http://amzn.to/29y73M3 World’s Muslim population more widespread than you might think http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/07/worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVqzmfqRCnM

How To Argue For Tariffs I asked my Patrons what the next video in the How To Argue For Statism series should be, so here it is: How To Argue For Tariffs 0:57 - 1. Understand the economics behind it. 2:08 - 2. Learn the Law of Comparative Advantage. 4:40 - 3. Give up the "Trade Deficit." 9:28 - 4. Why do economists across the board believe they're bad? 12:56 - 5. Explain how tariffs are better than straight-out welfare. 14:52 - 6. Deal with the arguments against protectionism. Transcript: http://shanedk.deviantart.com/journal/How-To-Argue-For-Tariffs-664903402 Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s http://www.nber.org/papers/w14264.pdf Import Duties | IGM Forum http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/import-duties The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade http://www.nber.org/papers/w21906 Trade and Labor Market Dynamics https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2015/2015-009.pdf US tariffs are an arbitrary and regressive tax http://voxeu.org/article/us-tariffs-are-arbitrary-and-regressive-tax ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmmSTZQgiOg