Policy. The council of Foreign Relations member and former analyst is the author of six nonfiction books, including the village, the strongest tribe and his 2011 release, the wrong war. Being wise, why do you call afghanistan toward the wrong war . Guest because we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen hurtling into the ninth century. That was too much. So what was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii, but doing in afghanistan, which is a pile of rocks in the middle of nowhere was the wrong war for that strategy. Host what wouldve been the right were . Guest very sent will. We shouldve finished al qaeda in 2001. Our general despair, but i think all of us. The rack, we were attacked on 9 11. More americans died in pearl harbor. We had al qaeda and we had Osama Bin Laden trapped in some mountains called tora bora. And then we le
Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii but doing it in afghanistan which is a pil
Oh, yes, you can. Thats what a war is all about. And general mccristal and others said mcchrystal said we should spend 95 of our effort persuading the people and 5 attacking the enemy. That makes no sense. If you start putting all these restrictions upon the use of force, do you know that we ended up having a lawyer in every battalion who had to decide whether we could use air in an attack for fear that somebody would be courtmartialed . So we put restrictions on ourselves beyond the restrictions that police have in major cities in the United States. Host bing west, in your view, was the iraq war necessary . [laughter] guest with perfect 20 20 hindsight . Absolutely not. Host at the time what did you think . Guest at the time i did because i believed then, as did most of the American Public and the congress, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and would give them to terrorists. That turns out to have been wrong. Wrong idea. Host in your book about the iraq war, the stro
For the billionaire businessman donald trump, coming into trumps overall delegate tally last night and setting up the possibility of an open convention that takes place in cleveland in july. This is a look at the final tally for republicans in wisconsin, ted cruz or the eight percent, donald trump 35 percent and john kasich with 14 percent. What does this mean for the race Going Forward . Lets talk to mike whose life for us in milwaukee with the latest. Hi there mike. Reporter it was the highest turnout in wisconsin since 1972, roughly half of the eligible voters cast their ballot and when they did they cast a ballot for an upset. Only two of eight congressional districts went to donald trump, therest went to senator cruise. In that upset and one of the guys who contributed is the state chairman of the Cruise Campaign, state senator Dewey Strobel and i guess youre a happy guy this morning and the question is, how do you pull it off . I think wisconsin proves that when the trunk show co
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