Ep. 436 David R. Henderson Reminisces About His Case Against Invading Iraq
David R. Henderson is a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He joins Bob to discuss a recent substack post, in which he reproduced the article Hoover ran in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. David and Bob then discuss parallels with current events.
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- David R. Henderson’s substack.
- An article explaining the Niger yellowcake forgeries.
- Daniel Ellsberg’s book on the US nuclear weapons program.
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About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
Bob: “I was going to NYU when Sept. 11 happened. I saw the second tower actually go down.. I had a camera … like it was on my.. It was a phone, you know.”
That was 2001. Y’know, camera phones weren’t really a thing in 2001. Or did you forget?
“In 2001, the first camera phone to be sold in the United States was the Samsung SCH-V200, which was released by Verizon Wireless. This phone had a resolution of only 0.3 megapixels”
So if I’d have been a poor student, who had the interest and money to obtain a brand new expensive hot spankin *camera* phone in 2001, I would not refer to that as “it was a phone, you know”. It would have been a pretty big deal to have a camera phone that September.
But also a little weird to use the 0.3megapixel selfie-cam to try to capture a distant building collapse..
No mention “yeah it would have come out uselessly low resolution anyway”. Just…
weird story Bob. I don’t know what to make of it.
I’m not sure I was clear enough:
You’d tell the story like “In September 2001 I was one of the very few people in the United States who owned a camera-phone, so I…” if it were true. Wouldn’t you?
Even going so far as to describe the technical error of taking the picture but glossing over an unusual piece of equiment was supposedly being used.
I’m at a loss to explain this.
It might not have been a camera phone. I guess it probably wasn’t because I was a slow adopter on mobile phones.