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he said the peace talks have stalled, that there is little progress and he really holds out no home, jim, that the taliban genuinely want peace in this country. and it is a group still carrying out terror attacks. anna coren, thank you so much. joining me now, peter burgen, cnn national security analyst visiting the country going back to the end of the soviet occupation and military analyst also did intelligence work for u.s. military operations there. peter, let me gib with you. what is afghanistan going to look like after the u.s. withdraw. we ve done versions of this. in 1989 we withdraw and we were blind to the rise of taliban and al qaeda. we did at the end of 2011 in iraq. you recall what happened three years later. so history doesn t repeat itself as mark twain said and it sometimes rhymes and here we re going to have a nasty civil war.
give me some space, i ll be flexible about missile defense. vladimir putin did give him space in the 2012 re-election bid. he was quiet. barack obama cancelled missile defense in eastern europe. that was to the detriment of places like the ukraine. martha: absolutely. the american people will say, what is the standard that we apply to presidents in personal calls, quid pro quo accusations, and we haven t seen it established and we haven t seen anything in this impeachment that is consistent with the nixon or clinton proceedings. martha: always interesting. victor hanson, thanks very much. good to see you. thank you. martha: so coming up next, the count down is on in iowa. the democrats are there to pitch their plans including joe biden hoping history doesn t repeat for him there. for these contenders, what will
we re in another one now. i would even say the late 1790s are another one where people actually talked about civil war, right, and anarchy. so there have been a number of moments where politics has been hyperpolarized, and i think those are moments naturally when norms begin to be shattered. things begin to be disruptive in some way. in the 1960s, you had tv sort of spreading that around in a different way. now you have social media. in the 1850s, telegraph making things more intense, because all of these new forms of technology meant whatever was going on, all the upset and ferment was spreading faster than ever before. so there have been other moments when people have had fears, but the important thing to say as a historian is that history doesn t repeat. so on the other hand, you can say that there are patterns. on the other hand, some of what we re going through now is distinctive to now.
the important thing to say as a historian is that history doesn t repeat. so on the other hand, you can say that there are patterns. on the other hand, some of what we re going through now is distinctive to now. what we re talking about tonight chiefly is a day of a kind of staged drama, as we said at the top of the broadcast. this term we re using to describe what happened today is stunt. i don t think any jury would convict us for misuse of that term. to invoke another title, a tipping point, there a tipping point when stunts add up and collapse under their own weight to the momentum of the forces of change? right. and i hesitated with the word stunt today. i kind of struggled with that because in a way, that suggests not to take this seriously, right? it s a stunt, and it was done for display. perhaps it was done to impress the president. it was done to call the proceedings secret, proceedings that 45 republicans have daily access to. precisely. it is to make a point that