Afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well that the answer short answer is that they cant. Theyre not in control. No president s have to do so what we call the National Security state or deep state requires and if you look at a map youll see that afghanistan is very strategically located right close to china quite close to kashmir to say where theres all kinds of gas and oil prices so its a matter for the military and the people who she is vanished and making sure that we can police the world those people that are in charge that is very. Very clear now that even of president morsi get out of the bush like afghanistan he can the height of hypocrisy of course he was the a story that the New York Times highlighted for the last week that russias were hoping bounty for for Afghan People killing u. S. Soldiers. There was no evidence for that and then the New York Times and you know giving hypocrisy a bad name came out with a major editorial say dont let this stuff withdraw from afg
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh hes a former cia analyst and president ial briefer and in lansing we have steve gerber he is the host of the earth are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump in he time you want and i was ok let me go to you 1st here are mikes discussed a lot in my i have composed a lot of questions of mind reduction lets start without a list and it speaks only so i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the United States remain in afghanistan after the president of the United States running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan were almost 4 years later were still there so why are we still there but if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. Well look the answer short answer is that they cant. Then i think control. No president s have to do so what we call the National Security state or deep state requires and if you look at a map you
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