president debate like this it hasn t happened in the era of television debates. there have been presidential matches on the ballot paper before but not before all of the voters in the us to watch for an hour and a half to two hours to watch and see what they make of each candidate. so much rhetoric exchanged between them of course this time going around the debates conditions to make the debates conditions to make the debates with. .. debates conditions to make the debates with. the microphone will be used and they wa nt to want to be allowed to advise with their advisors we will see how all of that plays out. let s have a look at our north america editor sarah smith looks at what we can expect later today. two old men who the voters already know very well. they really do not like the choice they are being given. he is hoping to make his opponent look even worse. the campaigns are trying to recognise what they see as their opponents recognise what they see as their opponent s
right organizational architecture, the right concepts, the right leaders. we squandered opportunities on which we might have capitalized early on. john mike fairfax, retired army special forces. how do you explain why we ve been in afghanistan for 20 years? i think because we fought 21-year wars. i think had we had people with a longer time horizon that were seeing this as a marathon as opposed to a seven-month sprint on a deployment or a 12-month sprint on a deployment, to include the commanders who we ve rotated through scandalously often, i think we would have had a potentially different outcome because people could have had some accountability for the decisions they made. katie cook, marine. do you think the u.s. is now perceived with greater strength or weakness after our involvement in afghanistan for the past 20 years? sadly, i think we are viewed with greater weakness.
and leaders. we squandered opportunities on which we may capitalized early on. john, mike fairfax, how do you explain we have been in afghanistan for 20 years? i think because we fought 21 years war. had we had people with a longer time horizon that we are seeing this is as marathon as opposed to seven months sprint on a deployment to include commanders who we rotated through. i think we would have a potentially different outcome because people could have some accountability for the decisions they made. katy cook, do you think the u.s. now perceived with greater strengths or weakness after involvement of afghanistan the past 20 years? sadly i think we are viewed with greater weakness. from 9/11 on, we sort of showed the world how long the dog s