as a nation. we have just left afghanistan after 20 years, in the hands of the taliban, as they were 20 years ago, at enormous cost to the u.s. to the people of afghanistan, and i think there is an openness now in the conversation for a reckoning about what we have and have not learned in those 20 years. joining me now is mehdi hasan whose show streams daily on peacock and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc. max rose, a former democratic congressman, served as an officer in the u.s. army with combat tours in afghanistan. and anne-marie slaughter who is the director of policy planning at the state department in the obama administration. she s now the ceo of the public policy think tank new america. great to have you all. max, i want to start with you, as a new yorker, as someone who served in that war that has now ended, what you think we have learned in these 20 years.
his website. so let s bring in the panel to discuss that and more. ann marie slaughter is the former director of policy planning at the state department. tom friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the new york times and author of thank you for being late . and ian bremmer, a firm that specializes in geopolitical risk and consultanting. tom, you wrote a column, an echo of i like like, 1950s modern. why i like mike. you say, and i assume you ve talked to bloomberg, that he knows it s a lock shot. why is mike bloomberg running? i think first and foremost because the mayor understands that four more years of donald trump will be a disaster for the country. when you see how trump has behaved when he s restrained by the need to get reelected, imagine how he would behave if he didn t have to get reelected
his candidacy for the president on his website. let s bring in the panel to discuss that and more. anne-marie slaughter is the former director of policy planning at the state department. she is the president and the ceo of the the tank, new america. tom friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the new york times and the author of the best seller, thank you for being late. and ian bremmer is the founder and president of the oeurasia group. tom, let me start with you. you wrote a column, an echo of i like ike, 1950s button. why i like mike. you say in that, and i assume you ve talked to mike bloomberg, that he knows that it s a long shot. why is mike bloomberg running m. i think, fareed, first and foremost, mayor bloomberg understands that four more years of donald trump will be a disaster for this country.
for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column. let s get started. let s get right into the events of the week with today s terrific panel. richard haas is the president of the council on foreign relations and a former director of policy planning at the sate department. neil ferguson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution. and ronna is a global economic analyst for cnn and has a new book out called don t be evil, how big tech betrayed the founding principles and all of us. ronna, what do you think of what i just said about facebook? well, i think it was a provocative position, and i like that part. i think that you can argue the idea of whether facebook should be policing free speech either way.
let s get right into the events of the week with today s terrific panel. richard haas is the president of the council on foreign relations and a former director of policy planning at the sate department. neil ferguson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution. and ronna is a global economic analyst for cnn and has a new book out called don t be evil. how big tech betrayed the founding principles and all of us. ronna, what do you think of what i just said about facebook? well, i think it was a provocative position, and i like that part. i think that you can argue the idea of whether facebook should be policing free speech either way. i think you make a strong case that maybe you don t want mark zuckerberg deciding what s truth and what s not, but i think what s really interesting here and what gets lost, one of the reasons that facebook and foogl and the other big platforms don t want to deal with