Many of you know doctor parry was the nineteenth secretary of defense in the clinton administration, a world renowned expert on us foreign policy, National Security, defense policy, arms control and long and distinguished history at stanford. A senior fellow at fsi and the Hoover Institution and codirector of National Security cooperation from 19881993 and bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics at stanford which is impressive to me because i didnt get through as a graduate student. Michael and barbara, Professor Emeritus at stanford, great to reconnect with you, and we also are thrilled to have doctor parrys coauthor here, tom z. Collina. He has 30 years of washington dc experience in nonproliferation issues and senior position at the arms Patrol Association and institute for science and interNational Security. And nuclear testing, with the new start treaty and a degree in International Relations from cornell but we wont hold that against you. I am pleased to introduce my colleag
So i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the United States remain in afghanistan after the president of the United States running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan were almost 4 years later were still there so why are we still there if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well look the answer short answer is that they cant theyre not in control. No president s have to do what we call the National Security state or deep state requires and if you look at a map youll see that afghanistan is very strategically located by close to china quite close to kashmir to say where theres all kinds of gas and oil prices so its a matter for the military and the people who she is vanished and making sure that we can police the world those people that are in charge its very. Very clear now that even of president morsi get out of a place like afghanistan he can the height of hypocrisy of course if he was the a sto
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Afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well that the answer short answer is that they cant. Theyre not in control. No president s have to do so what we call the National Security state or deep state requires and if you look at a map youll see that afghanistan is very strategically located right close to china quite close to kashmir to say where theres all kinds of gas and oil prices so its a matter for the military and the people who she is vanished and making sure that we can police the world those people that are in charge that is very. Very clear now that even of president morsi get out of the bush like afghanistan he can the height of hypocrisy of course he was the a story that the New York Times highlighted for the last week that russias were hoping bounty for for Afghan People killing u. S. Soldiers. There was no evidence for that and then the New York Times and you know giving hypocrisy a bad name came out with a major editorial say dont let this stuff withdraw from afg
And allied forces day in afghanistan. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh hes a former cia analyst and president ial briefer and in lansing we have steve gerber he is the host of this earth are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump an economy wow and i was ok let me go to you 1st here are mikes discussed a lot in my i have composed a lot of questions of mind reduction but lets start with out a list and it speaks only so i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the United States remain in afghanistan after the president of the United States running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan were almost 4 years later were still there so why are we still there if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well look the answer short answer is that they cant theyre not in control. No president s have to do what we call the National Security state or deep state requi