Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
they actually got it back already. these are 40 years of violence against russians and then against the karzai government. there are a lot of turmoil. this is not going to be a very responsive government. i don t think we have almost any leverage. the pakistanis do. the chinese do. we ll have to be support you have of the refugee outflow. that s our principle goal, it seems to me. general barry mccaffrey, thank you both for your expertise this afternoon. we appreciate it. 20 years after the worst terror attack in history, the five men accused of helping carry it out will finally face trial. why it took so long and what to expect. why it took so long and expect