through my head right now anger, betrayal, sadness. what would you say to him? yeah, it s completely disheartening, the fact that we ve so quickly given up to follow the united states. i visited helmand province probably a dozen times over the last 10, 12 years, and always amazed to see the bravery of our armed forces personnel and the work that they were doing to build up local capabilities. every time i went there, i was very saddened to see that the good work that we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided, was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, to build infrastructure and so forth, and that s absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people. and the consequence of that is i rememberflying over the kajaki dam a few years ago, seeing the very turbine
bravery of armed forces personnel and the work that they were doing to build up local capabilities. every time i went there was very saddened to see that the good work we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, build infrastructure and so forth and thatis infrastructure and so forth and that is absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people and the consequence of that is, i remember flying consequence of that is, i rememberflying over the consequence of that is, i remember flying over the dam, seeing the aerosol delivered a decade earlier, it was laying there next to the dam still in its bubblewrap, and projects like that or the absence of completion of projects was right across the board in afghanistan. we didn t do enoughin afghanistan. we didn t do enough in the time that we were there. it took us five years
up local capabilities. every time i went there, i was very saddened to see that the good work that we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided, was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, to build infrastructure and so forth, and that s absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people. and the consequence of that is i rememberflying over the kajaki dam a few years ago, seeing the very turbine that the 16 air assault brigade had delivered a decade earlier, it was lying there next to the dam itself, still in its bubble wrap. it hadn t been put in position to provide electricity, which would have been game changing for the people of helmand. and projects like that, or the absence of completion of projects, was right across the board in afghanistan. we didn t do enough in the time that we were there. it took us five years before we even started training an afghan force in 2005. that s when we began in earnest.
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donald trump has created more jobs in the manufacturing space in two years than barack obama did in two terms. if you raise taxes on people who are creating jobs are going to stop creating jobs. if you raise the interest rate they will stop borrowing money, that has a trickle-down effect. the tax policies cutting taxes for everyone across the board has worked if you don t believe me look at the numbers of the unemployment rate for hispanics and african-americans in our country, they are at record lows because of the job creating opportunities. raymond: i m a latino, the hispanic numbers are at the bottom historic lows of unemployment. you have more workplace participation than ever before. what s wrong with that, is the economy working? it s not the economy working. wages are lower than ever and you don t have benefits. people are working two jobs but they re not able to make the rent rent is higher than it s ever been and wages are lower.