Expressed. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle after almost 2 decades of war and occupation American Military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban well see a bill majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washingtons geo political interests to be in afghanistan will americas longest war ever end. Talking up to an extent im joined by my guess it is our guardian in kabul he is the director of center for development of peace studies in lake jackson we cross to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul ince. For peace and prosperity and in boston we have max abrams he is a professor of Political Science and Northeastern University as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate
Media were to back to 2001 i remember person bush assertion in the senate and he was telling that were going to afghanistan to do 4 fundamental things number one we have to cripple terrorism in the country because that had been have been the sponsor for the day and we have to them 2nd was the Sustainable Economic Development there was the forces improvement in finally the human rights and democracy off to teen years lets judge the whole mission with the result we have right now in haint i think there has been some wrong military started some duty tricks some political or wrong maneuvers both by the afghan go i mean by that is not allies and also the United States i hope that you should have been doing grant just recently you know him and his honesty and its our idea you can go through checking all the boxes you want but nation building for afghanistan is an utter complete failure its cost about a trillion dollars thousands of american troops countless numbers of afghans ok let me go ov
And welcome to cross talk were all things are considered. After almost 2 decades of war and occupation American Military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban the majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washingtons geo political interests to be in afghanistan will americas longest war ever end. Talking about ganesh then im joined by my guest. In kabul he is the director of center for development and peace studies in lake jackson. And we cross to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity and in boston we have max abrams he is a professor of Political Science and Northeastern University as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel let me go to you theyre talking about a Peace Proce
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As the new leader of the liberal democrats. The mp for East Dunbartonshire beat her rival ed davey. Our deputy Political Editor john pienaar has more. New face, same promise stop brexit, or try. Jo swinson was favourite to win, and she did, easily. Jo swinson 47,000. Standing against brexit has been the lib dems best game plan, and she is sticking to it. In the face of nationalism, populism, the catastrophe of brexit, the two old parties have failed. 0ur party has been clear on brexit from day one. We believe the uks best future is as members of the european union. And thats why, as your leader, i will do whatever it takes to stop brexit. She has come a long way. This tax on learning is not acceptable. As a student, jo swinson campaigned against tuition fees. Westminsters youngest mp in 2005, she was a minister in the coalition which introduced the tuition fees that helped wreck the lib dems popularity. She lost her seat in 2015, like all but a handful of lib dems. Back two years later