Afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground theyve been articulating a lot of things that were in the Washington Post report for years literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling because after what they have witnessed and the fact that over a majority of our veterans dont support this conflict maybe people are finally going to start listening to the folks on the ground who had direct experience there its sad because thats usually the 1st people they stop listening to especially in was washington policy makers and people like that you know bob crowley an army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency advisor to u. S. Military commanders in 2013 and 14 he told interviewers as part of this report every data point was altered to present the best picture possible surveys for instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a self licking Ic
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Isnt lost on anyone that after the 2nd world war churchill gave all of his most famous speeches in which he called for the creation of a United States of europe and working together economically and socially for the greater good that phrase United States of europe is used by brick sitters including those inside the johnson ministration as the biggest insults of all. The. New found love of the European Union from those terrified of bricks it is now forced johnson into a corner and could easily lead to his resignation in the coming weeks the conservative party has a lot of thinking to do Lawrence Lee Al Jazeera london. Coming up after a check on the weather like the aftermath of a nuclear bomb aid agencies describe the difficulty of getting help help to hurricane survivors in the bahamas and a return to normalcy for now in nigerias socalled wild west as a truce holds a decade of violence. Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecast will continue to clear skies across much
Reporting that at least 18 fighters iranian backed fighters were killed in those strikes it wouldnt be the 1st time we did mention that israel has been targeting iranian backed fighters in syria for years but what has been happening as of late sami is that were seeing israel expanding the scope of its military operations targeting iran and iranian backed fighters wherever it can syria 2 weeks ago lebannon and then we have these mysterious strikes targeting iraqi groups groups that are backed by iran targeting their arms depots targeting their leaders very close to the Syrian Border what israel is trying to do is we can iran across the region prevent it from gaining more influence and that area of this book camel area there is really a heavy presence of iranian backed fighters because this is the land corridor or it lies along the land corridor that links their front to damascus damascus to beirut. Thanks so much. Still ahead on aljazeera the families who say their lifestyles in the ama
Not least within the Afghan Government itself under president arnie. That they did not like the document they were dead immediately explain that they had reservations about certain elements of it and i think also for the for the broader public we should not forget that afghanistan has been urbanized since 2001 to a greater extent theres a huge number of people that live in the cities and that cities have been broadly facing the brunt of the taliban attacks where in the rural areas the taliban have been attacked consistently by the nato led and then you know the last few years by the Afghan Security services so in the city is the perception of a peace deal with the taliban and how its received is entirely different to how it might be viewed and ok perceived in the rural areas although afghans as a total they do want an end to violence but i think that particular draft looked like it was giving the taliban upper hand and the taliban could actually sell it as a as a product that shows tha