From American Third Party Report:
Today, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Rogan’s podcast is popular; his YouTube channel has over 606,000 subscribers and over 131 million total video views. His interview with Johnson lasted two and half hours.
Gary Johnson sounds like he was very impressed by the Edward Snowden film Citizen Four at 1 hour 31 minutes into the interview.
Jeremy Kareken> The question is how do we get them to stop.
Why is it the burden of any given person outside Iran to get the Iranian government to stop?
We know for a fact Iran funds terror in the region in addition to their usual paramilitary proxies. But are we more able to change their behavior through engagement or warfare? Sanctions can work for so long. And then you have to think about other things. I don’t know what the answer is, but I’m sure governor Johnson is perfectly aware that Iran funds Hamas and Hizballah and IJ and others. The question is how do we get them to stop.
Gary Johnson always sounds better in long interviews. He has to work on his short sound bites, which are all that are allowed by the mainstream media and in debates. I didn’t like everything he spoke about here (particularly his inability to articulate how Iran funds terrorism – and completely abolishing the IRS rather than a major reform of the tax code) but he is a breath of fresh air. I voted for him in 2012 and may do so again.