together in a way i ve never seen done. all these pack torz making it easier for the average person out there who is non-military to say go ahead with this war. thank you, chris. that s nice of you to say and thank you for having me on to talk about it. i m not an expert on the military, i m not an expert on war. i never served. my father did but i didn t grow up on military bases or anything like that. this is a book about politics and our politics about war and about this feeling that i think a lot of the people in the country have had, whether you re left wing or right wing or even if you don t care about politics that it didn t feel like we re a country that went to war in afghanistan. we re a country that sent the military to war and let them go to work. and the military s lives have been so different in the last decade, and the book is essential about why we got to feel this way and why it feels so wrong to us. let me ask you about afghanistan because that s the case in point
she s the host of the rachel mad dow show and my beloved colleague. rachel, what you ve done here is briskly sharp and important, which a way to put it all together in a way i ve never seen done. all these pack torz making it easier for the average person out there who is non-military to say go ahead with this war. thank you, chris. that s nice of you to say and thank you for having me on to talk about it. i m not an expert on the military, i m not an expert on war. i never served. my father did but i didn t grow up on military bases or anything like that. this is a book about politics and our politics about war and about this feeling that i think a lot of the people in the country have had, whether you re left wing or right wing or even if you don t care about politics that it didn t feel like we re a country that went to war in afghanistan. we re a country that sent the military to war and let them go to work. and the military s lives have been so different in the last decade, an