What Scott Horton has said about United States war with Iran

Horton argues that Iran's strikes on US bases showed America's Middle East military empire to be a bluff that Iran successfully called.

“America's military empire in the Middle East is completely bankrupt, right? That whole thing was a hollow bluff, and the Iranians just called it, and we lost”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:19

Horton cites recent reporting that officials admit Iran retains most of its missiles and launchers.

“admitting now that the Iranians still have 70, 75 percent of all their missiles and launchers”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:24:07

Horton recommends that the United States end the war and withdraw its forces from the Middle East.

“I really think that the thing to do is just quit. The thing to do is for America to just come home”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:15:41

Horton argues Trump's war has boosted Iranian regional power about as much as George W. Bush's Iraq War did.

“what Donald Trump has done with this war is about at least equivalent to what W. Bush did in terms of enhancing Iranian power in the region”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:29:03

Horton describes his coined term 'backdraft' terrorism, citing an Austin shooting after the war began as an example.

“backdraft terrorism is when the consequences of your overt foreign policies just blow up right in your face”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:21:39