General bolger i retired in june of 2013 and i was a lieutenant general. Brian what are you doing now . Daniel i teach history at university of North Carolina raleigh. Brian where were you born . Daniel chicago, illinois. The west side of chicago and then the west suburbs, westchester. Brian and you went to college where . General bolger the citadel, the Military College of south carolina. The army selected me for graduate school. I got my masters and doctorate from the university of chicago. Brian what time did you go to college . General bolger i was commissioned in the army in 1978 and i completed my graduate schooling in 1986. My dad served as an infantryman in the korean war. He rose to the rank of sergeant and then got out. He was proud of his service. The people in my community were volunteering or being drafted for vietnam. Until i was older, i never met anyone who resisted the draft. My neighbors were all world war ii veterans. I wanted to see if i could do that. Brian first o
Im a United States army general and i lost the global war on terrorism. It is like alcoholics anonymous. Step one is admitting you have a problem. I have a problem. Thanks to our problem, all of america has a problem. Two lost campaigns end a war gone awry. Daniel this is the most serious thing i have ever had to do in my life. Where we are at in this war is not where i ever wanted to be. The American People i owed the American People and accounting of what i did, what my peers did. To see why and what we can learn from it. Brian whose idea was it to title this book why we lost . Daniel i was going to call it something more neutral. After i finished writing it, i realized what i had actually written was a narrative that gave an explanation of why we failed. Brian when did you retire . Daniel i retired in june of 2013 and i was a lieutenant general. Brian what are you doing now . Daniel i teach history at university of North Carolina raleigh. Brian where were you born . Daniel chicago,
The seminoles, the cheats. No one today would call a franchise a the redskins. You have to look into net can be change. It is another speed bump and a long road ahead of us. To watch all of the winning videos and to learn more about the competition, go to cspan. Org. Also, tell us what you think about these issues these students addressed on their documentary on facebook and twitter. Coming up tonight, photojournalist Robert Nichols berg talks about his 25 years documenting the modern history in photos. Later, kentucky senator rand paul announces his candidacy for president. Awardwinning photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg document to 25 years in afghanistan. He spoke about his career and the history of the region told through his pictures. This is just over an hour. Mr. Nickelsberg i am going to give you a brief introduction on how i got to south asia and begin a rather rapid 60 image presentation. Starting from 1988 and going up to 2013. In 1987, i moved from bangkok, thailand when an
This is the moment of impact. You can see the brass casing. He has just been hit. These are all the taliban that were caught, including us, the three journalist. He is going down, down. I had moved from this position. This fellow was about to fire an rpg into the doorway. This man had the look of death. He carries his friend away after firing a rocket and all hell broke loose. 36 hours later, this is what remained. Every single taliban was killed. They have no language in common. They are hated. The most strange think the taliban could have done was to ask the men to turn in their weapons. This treaty collapsed in 1997. These are red cross workers. It is in may, 100 degrees. The bodies did start to smell. In 19 it comes the taliban went back in and killed 2200 locals. Revenge in 2008, the taliban went back in and killed 2200 locals. In 2001 and february, we are getting closer to 9 11 so everything is heating up. The environment is not very pleasant for the taliban. Only three countries
It was more of a challenge properly getting into the mindset of enabling than a real challenges that make sense. The proof search string is 362,000. Where are we at the moment . Without the full strength. Isnt it to hand over completely to the ansf some capabilities they simply will not have you they will not have their support and they wont have the helicopters. How do we assume they can take full responsibility . Youre absolutely right. They dont have all of those now in some of those higher end of this scale calculations have been provided. Weve got until the end of 2014 to gradually shift the Training Program so that it increasingly they are able to do more and more. So thats training shifting program from infantry skills to medical evacuation planning, some of the higher command field with the more and more upstream towards the end co in the prior command. Youre not going to train them to fight, are you . They do have some attack helicopters. We need to distinguish between nato an