taking his political spending in-house. and then there s the coke brothers and their allies who have built up a political operation that political reports have all the hallmarks of a national political party. they ve dumped tens of millions of dollars into a data company as detailed, state of the art profiles. a coke-backed business at the credibility e center uses consumer data along with information from social networks, income, tv viewing and everyone a brand of cars someone drives to develop voter profiles. this used to be the sort of constitutional capacity that could only be had from a political party. various war lords fight to impose their will.
brothers and their allies who have built up a political operation that political reports have all the hallmarks of a national political party. they ve dumped tens of millions of dollars into a data company as detailed, state of the art profiles. a koch-backed business at the credibility e center uses consumer data along with information from social networks, income, tv viewing and everyone a brand of cars someone drives to develop voter profiles. this used to be the sort of constitutional capacity that could only be had from a political party. various war lords fight to impose their will. it s a huge change we re going to talk about next.
is that your experience? that s primarily our observation. they are older, wiser, they re combat leaders, war lords, officials. they were used to calling the shots. not executing them. and basically, they lived quite comfortably, they were able to communicate. they lived communally, and they had access to whatever resources were useful to them in terms of guiding and directing other detainees. in your opinion, are they considered heroes in the arab world? i don t know how they are considered in the arab world. i know that within the detention facility, especially among the afghans, they were i-i wouldn t want to use the term reveered but there was an honest respect for their
if you re caught in the middle of a war. do you think when you hear the president talk about what this war was about. one of the confusions of this 14-year war has been was the war against al qaeda or was it against the taliban? the taliban was harboring al qaeda. and when he said decisive blows issued to our enemy, that will is probably true about al qaeda. but it s unclear if that is true of the taliban who still have big swaths of the country. that s right. the taliban have not been defeated. they re still entrenched in the countryside. that doesn t mean they re going to march into the cities and take over the country when the u.s. troops lead. but it also means the afghan government isn t likely to go and kick them out of the villages. what we re really looking at the status quo is two sides fighting each other, basically in perpetuity. what is the status quo? i don t feel like have i my hands uab around that. what does it mean? imagine the afghan government and the u.s. vi
our strategic interests, bearing in mind that karzai will be gone in june. the united states government spends $10 billion a day so our entire afghan campaign comes to about 75 days of u.s. government spending. $10 million. $10 billion. it s $10 million. we spent billion a day. oh, you mean overall, not in afghanistan. so when you say $750 billion, keep that number in perspective is what i m saying. well, okay. what are we getting out of this? the karzai family war lords are getting rich. he s spitting in our face, as you said. in return what? what s the upside exactly? afghan girls are going to school. that s great, but that s not in our strategic interest. we re not acting in our interest. we can t even install an obedient puppet. by the way, after thousands of americans killed, we have the right to do that. the bottom line is we re not a good colonial power. we re not good occupiers. the british weren t, the soviets