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president obama tried to get america out of two wars that were unpopular, but at the same time, after iraq fell into the hands of isis couldn t let the same thing happen with afghanistan. he s done a little here. it doesn t massively change matters on the ground. it s nothing like the troops they had there at one point, but it certainly alarms critics who says they are leaving afghanistan to extremists as well. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. want to bring in rick francona and investigative reporter david rode, who was held by the taliban for a number of months. also brock macintosh, a a guard veteran who served in afghanistan in 2008. he s now a spokesperson for veterans for rethinking afghanistan and a member of iraq veterans against the war. so thank you so much, all of you, for being with me. brock, thank you so much for your service. let me ask you. you served, you sacrifice d.
in a couple of months. there are no specific numbers, but critics say that is not good enough. our specialist today, marine corporal jake dellberto. he is co-founder of the group veterans for rethinking afghanistan. and is currently petitioning to begin swift troop withdrawals from afghanistan. karen, susan and jimmy do remain with us. corporal, what is your argument? well, dylan, thank you for having me on the program. the central argument in recognizing this is that the war on terror that we started in 2001 was a war against people that were trying to attack us here in the united states. that is al qaeda. that is al qaeda and its families. that has nothing to do with afghanistan. if you look at what s taking place in afghanistan, we have got a corrupt government that s shaking hundreds of billions of dollar away from the american people, and there is nothing to fix that unless we stop pumping money into afghanistan and to
rethinking afghanistan. we re not winning. it s not worth it. i ll read a bit from it, richard. the war in the united states is now fighting in afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way. the time has come to scale back u.s. objectives and sharply reduce u.s. involvement on the ground. afghanistan is claiming too many american lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too much resources, the sooner we accept that afghanistan is less a problem to be fixed than a situation to be managed, the better. you start out this piece talking about michael steele s comments and giving some credit to them. but, you know, especially when he talks about this being welcome obama s war. it is obama s war. he has ramped it up in a way has never happened there, but it is because it was manage inside a certain way for nine years and it still exists and he adopted it possibly because it was managed badly. shouldn t this have been
the president to shift fundamentally in your direction some. great question. either poor developments on the ground or the public opinion polls or simply that he, himself, comes to this conclusion. this is a very cerebral guy and people are known to change their minds. my hunch he, himself, i would be surprised if he, himself, does not have doubts about hi policy. you have to. the suicide bombing in iraq another sign that in some ways these are endless cycles. this is the new normal in a place like iraq. the whole idea we were going to create iraq to be this model to transform the region. no. hopefully, it won t get much worse than it is now but it s never going to be the sort of place people set out to create. got to be realistic. all right. richard haass, newsweek cover story, rethinking afghanistan. everybody should read it. thank you very much. willie, i know what did i do now? what happened? they are worried about you.
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