Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle after almost 2 decades of war and occupation American Military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban the majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washingtons geo political interest to be in afghanistan will americas longest war ever end. Cross talking afghanistan im joined by my guest. He is the director of center for development and peace studies in lake jackson we cross to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity and am boston we have max abrams he is a professor of Political Science at Northeastern University as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel let me go to you theyre talking about a Peace Pr
Sean thomas have with us art a new report from a conservative watchdog alleges that there is a covert multimillion dollar strategy to promote liberal values in the United States in the document unmasks a scheme to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming Donald Trumps border wall arties it was done of comments. Whats more powerful in politics than money a strong candidate with a good program and idealist would say nothing a realist would say but a politician would say dark money dark money is the millions of dollars that behind the scenes donors are spending to send the political train down the track and according to the left leaning media its a bad bad thing because the conservatives do it because brothers have made billions and want to ensure their government doesnt limit their ability to make more conservative donor david koch as one half of the Koch Brothers came to symbolize the influence of dark money in america but you know whos even better than conservatives th
Media were to back to 2001 i remember person bush assertion in the senate and he was telling that were going to afghanistan to do 4 fundamental things number one we have to cripple terrorism in the country because that had been have been the sponsor for the day and we have to them 2nd was the Sustainable Economic Development there was the forces improvement in finally the human rights and democracy off to teen years lets judge the whole mission with the result we have right now in haint i think there has been some wrong military started some duty tricks some political or wrong maneuvers both by the afghan go i mean by that is not allies and also the United States i hope that you should have been doing grant just recently you know him and his honesty and its our idea you can go through checking all the boxes you want but nation building for afghanistan is an utter complete failure its cost about a trillion dollars thousands of american troops countless numbers of afghans ok let me go ov
And welcome to cross talk were all things are considered. After almost 2 decades of war and occupation American Military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban the majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washingtons geo political interests to be in afghanistan will americas longest war ever end. Talking about ganesh then im joined by my guest. In kabul he is the director of center for development and peace studies in lake jackson. And we cross to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity and in boston we have max abrams he is a professor of Political Science and Northeastern University as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel let me go to you theyre talking about a Peace Proce
Minute world news update from r. T. International sort of with this country malign kremlin influence that so the u. S. Agency for International Development has called a new strategy to help European Countries avoid outside meddling and reduce the dependence on Russian Energy moscows branded it though anti russian propaganda ill see the correspondent takes us through the plan usaid has unveiled a new plan a strategy officially aimed at boosting the resilience of the nations unofficial e it appears to mean giving lots and lots of money to anyone that who could be and demonstrably doesnt like russia politicians businessmen media i mean its in the name countering my lai in kremlin influence. These efforts will include creating tools for reform minded leaders and Civil Society voices to tackle corrupt government practices that kremlin agents often selectively exploit for moscow strategic benefit 1st off and the us apparently wants to cut out russias voice i mean the aims arent exactly veg w