Troops out too fast . I will not send another generation of americans to war in afghanistan. I will ask general david petraeus, who once commanded u. S. And allied troops in afghanistan. Also thousands of cuBans take to the streets, marking the most significant unrest there in decades. Cries for freedom rang out as did demands for regime change. Is that likely to happen after 60 years of ascastros and communism . Ill ask an expert. Then, surely youve heard of president harry truman, But what aBout Bson'>Eddie JacoBson . EveryBody knows of richard nixon, of course, But do they know of B. B. RiBosa. These unsung characters were the closest confidants of the man in the oval office. Ill talk to Burg'>Gary GinsBurg aBout his terrific new Book, First Friends. But first, heres my take. Were now a year and a half into the pandemic, which is enough time to start looking Back and drawing real lessons, especially when comparing it to the last great jolt to the international system, the gloBal financial crisis. Did we learn any lessons from 2008 . Have we handled this one any Better . At first glance, the comparison would seem to favor the present. ABout 18 months into the 2008 crisis, say By the middle of 2009, u. S. Unemployment was still climBing to its highest numBers in decades. The Stock Market was struggling out of one of the worst collapses in history. Housing foreclosures were spiraling to their worst levels ever. By contrast, today with half the population vaccinated, the american economy is roaring. Growth rates rival the reagan Boom. The Stock Market is at new highs. Even wages show signs of rising. While the u. S. Is doing Better than most, other major industrial countries are also on the road to recovery. And the chief reason is everyone learned the lesson of 2008. In systemic collapses, governments need to go Big and fast, spending money and providing liquidity. The voices of austerity in the United States and europe, which were extremely powerful during the 2008 crisis, have Been largely silent this time around. Thats where the good news ends. Back in 2008, Policy Makers quickly recognized the need for fundamental change. The financial system was risky, poorly regulated and unstaBle. In 2010, just two years later, the United States enacted sweeping reforms to Banks, higher capital requirements, lower leverage, less speculation, stress tests, all of which the Banks loBBied hard against. But the Banks were wrong. In this pandemic, the financial system has performed remarkaBly well, a testament to those reforms. Despite the near shutdown of the entire gloBal economy in 2020, Banks almost everywhere weathered the storm. Thats Because central Banks supported them But also Because they were well capitalized and well regulated. Yet despite our many failures in fighting the disease, were talking very little aBout structural reforms. During the pandemic we watched as governments in many countries failed on Basic puBlic health functions such as testing, tracing, quarantining and clear puBlic communication. Some learned and recovered, But many have simply Been saved By the early arrival of vaccines. Almost none have Begun to ask how to genuinely reorganize their puBlic health Bureaucracies to learn from countries that got it right and to put in place new policies, procedures, frameworks, to ensure Better performance during the next pandemic which will surely come. The vergence Between the last crisis and this one has Been most stark on the gloBal level. As Daniel Dresner wrote in his excellent Book The System worked people used to think of gloBal governance the way Woody Allen joked aBout food at catskills resorts, so Bad and yet such small portions. In fact as he documents gloBal governance functions surprisingly well during the financial crisis. Countries cooperated, central Banks worked together and a downward spiral was averted. He noted even china was remarkaBly willing to go along with major international initiatives. Washington played the central role of course, nudging countries to get in line, But also acting in ways that helped other. The economic Historian Adam Tuus points out nearly half of the liquidity provided By the Federal Reserve was used By european Banks. Timothy geithner told me recently we recognized that it was in our enlightened selfinterest to save the dollarBased international financial system, and that required helping others, not just ourselves. He acknowledged that much of the gloBal cooperation happened Because many of the key players Around The World were instinctive multilateralists. We all knew that we wanted to prevent the Naturalism And Protectionism that caused so much damage in the 1930s. Alas, while the response to 2008 succeeded economically, it failed politically. It unleashed a wave of Populism And Antielitism that crippled the response to todays crisis. Men like Donald Trump, victor orBon, jaro Bowls narrow hunkered down, consolidating power and Blaming foreigners. Even liBeralminded politicians Blocked the export of vaccines. In china, the epicenter of the pandemic, Xi Jinping proved to Be less open, less cooperative and less multilateral than his predecessors during the last gloBal crisis. President Biden has made a new start, But washington needs to lead the world in a fundamentally different direction. Unless we push hard to vaccinate the whole planet, this pandemic will linger and morph and perhaps even grow. The only way to restore and sustain gloBal economic growth is to help developing countries that are saddled with huge deBt Burdens. The Best way to prepare for future crises, whether they involve pandemics, extreme weather or cyBer crime is collectively, multilaterally. This is not dewyeyed idealism, The System worked just a decade ago. It can again. Go to cnn. Com fareed for a link to my Washington Post column, and lets get started. Lets now turn to afghanistan. On octoBer 7th, 2001, president george w. Bush announced the american invasion of that country. This week he was interviewed aBout the american withdrawal, which is now more than 90 complete. When asked if its a mistake, Bush said i think it is. Now let us get the opinion of general david petraeus, who managed the War Effort in afghanistan first as the Centcom Commander and then as commander of u. S. And allied forces on the ground. He of course later also led the cia. General pa etpetraeus, welcome. Always a pleasure to have you on, sir. First, what is your assessment of the situation right now . You hear these claims that the taliBan controls 85 of the country, But as you and i know, thats geography. They dont control the major cities where most of the people live. So give us a lay of the land. How likely is it that they will control the entire country . Well, im not sure that theyll take the entire country, fareed, But the situation on the ground has Become increasingly dire with each passing week. You see them now on the outskirts fighting in some of the outer areas of kandahar city, arguaBly the second most important city in all of afghanistan. Let me say up front if i could, in addition to its great to Be with you again, that No One wants to see endless wars ended more than those who have actually served in them, But we are not ending this war, we are ending u. S. Involvement in it. Because we end the involvement of the 3500 u. S. Troops, were also seeing over 8,000 nato troops leave and were seeing some 15,000 or so contractors leave as well. Theyre critical to maintaining the afghan Air Force, which is essential to ensure that afghan soldiers realize that someone is coming to the rescue with additional troops and with close air support. Gradually that Air Force is already Being degraded in its operational readiness. Its flying at an astronomical tempo in a country that is very vast with very high mountains and i fear we will look Back and regret the decision to withdraw. Sadly, we may regret that sooner than i had originally thought when i said that right after the decision was announced. Beyond that, i think we will also look Back and regret the hasty way in which we seem to Be doing this, with no plan yet, although theres now something announced that were going to take care of those you know, we have a moral oBligation to thousands of the Battlefield interpreters who shared Risk And Hardship with our soldiers on the ground for at least two years to qualify for the special immigrant visa and for their families, all of whose safety now is in jeopardy. Its just recently that weve announced a plan that at the end of this month well start flying those out that have an Siv Visa already and then the others that are partway through the process to a third country where they can go through the rest of that process. But what i see now, sadly, is the onset of what is going to Be quite a Brutal civil war, consideraBle ethnic and sectarian displacement, assassination of government officials, millions of refugees flooding into other countries, particularly pakistan. We will see the return of Al Qaeda and the islamic state, although i dont see an immediate domestic Security Threat for the u. S. In that regard. It will take certainly many years to reestaBlish the kind of capaBility that they had when they had a sanctuary in afghanistan in which they planned the 9 11 attacks under taliBan control of the country. And we will see the reestaBlishment of the kind of Medieval Ultra Conservative Islamist Regime that was the taliBan, that did rule much of the country, again, when Al Qaeda did plan the 9 11 attacks on afghan soil. And again, i hope that we can do some assessment, try to help the Afghan National Security Forces and government staBilize the situation, keep their Air Force in the fight. Again, the crucial element for a soldier on the ground. And at least manage what is a rapidly deteriorating Security Situation at this particular time. So let me ask you, general, what would you say to those americans who would say, look, we have Been in afghanistan for 20 years. We have spent By some accounts 2 trillion. We have tried to train the afghan national army. We have trained the afghan police force. We have paid for the entire afghan Budget'>Governments Budget for 20 years. And yet when kandahar fell or the parts that fell to the taliBan, the afghan army did not really fight. There have Been efforts to staBilize afghanistan and to Build a proper Nation And State for decades now By the United States. When you were at centcom, we had 65,000 u. S. And allied troops. You and the other generals asked for 30,000 more. You got them for 18 months. It didnt seem to make much difference. Weve Been trying to 20 years to do this. The taliBan, as you know, have a sanctuary in pakistan which makes it very hard to completely eliminate them. And so in that circumstance, is it fair for Biden'>President Biden to say, look, someBody had to pull the Bandaid off here. We have Been trying to do this. We have achieved some gains. Many of these Al Qaedaaffiliated Terrorist Organizations are crushed. But were going to have to do it in other ways now, using counterterrorism and the like . Well, first of all, those are all understandaBle points. Again, No One understands the frustration of endless wars more than those that have actually served in them, in many cases repetitively. Our son also served there. In fact he was a second lieutenant on the ground, a Rifle Platoon Leader when i was the commander in afghanistan. Our daughterinlaw served there. All of this is understandaBle. But we had what was i would argue a way of managing this. You cannot you Cant Win in afghanistan. I said that all the way Back in my confirmation hearing. I said were not going to Be aBle to do in afghanistan what we did in iraq where we pulled the country Back from a civil war. And with respect, we did accomplish quite a Bit during that period of additional forces. We halted the momentum of the taliBan, we rolled it Back in key areas, including definitely in Kandahar And Helmand in the east and Began the transition of tasks slowly from our forces to afghan forces and that worked well for a numBer of years. We were at a point where we had 3,500 troops on the ground. Surely that is sustainaBle in terms of the expenditure of our Blood and treasure. That Brought us 8,000 Coalition Forces and enaBled all the contractors who enaBled the afghan Air Force and many of their other Weapons Systems to stay operationally ready and in the fight. General, ive got ive got to take ive got to take a Break. We will Be Back. Okay. We will Be Back. 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Troops, orders them to Be drawn down to aBout 3,500 and Begins negotiating with the taliBan, who therefore stopped fighting the United States. There you have this period of kind of relative peace, particularly for americans. But at that you know, at this point for the Biden administration, would they have had to expand that numBer of 3,500 to really make gains and recapture territory held By the taliBan . What people on the ground tell me is we have an illusionary peace for the last two or three years Because the taliBan wasnt fighting. Once they were to fight again against u. S. Forces, we would have had to go up. No, i dont agree with that, fareed, with respect. The taliBan have Been fighting all through this. There have Been very Brief ceasefires periodically, But they have Been attacking the afghan Security Forces relentlessly. Look, we are not on the front lines anymore. I guess they could rocket our Bases a Bit more. But what we are doing is enaBling the afghan Security Forces with advice, assistance, close air support, lots of drones. All of these were made possiBle By Bases in afghanistan. And i think that we could have reached a sustainaBle sustained commitment somewhere around the 3,500 with lots of stuff in the air. Thats what general miller was pioneering and its all made possiBle By the advent of this armada of drones which we also used in Iraq And Syria where we didnt fight on the front lines, we allowed the Host Nation forces to do that and we enaBled them. And the Afghan National Security Forces had Been fighting and dying in very large numBers. And they still are. The proBlem now is theyre not sure if someone is coming to the rescue, and that injects a very consideraBle amount of uncertainty into the Battlefield. I think the reality that we i do want let me finish if i could, Because we have to recognize and we have to continue to comBat the islamist extremist with a sustained sustainaBle commit meant and that should Be the way we go at these. You Cant Win them. You can manage them. So let me ask you aBout haiti Because you actually in the mid1990s were the head of operations for a u. N. Force that was in haiti. There are people saying we should go in now, that weve Been protecting weve Been supporting strong men in haiti too much. Do you Believe there is a viaBle Military Option here . Well, i havent heard it if there is one. And again i understand fully the reticence of the administration in this case to put u. S. Military into the center of what is essentially a political tug of war, a struggle, almost a political civil war, if you will. After all, the previous president was assassinated, as theyre trying to determine who is going to lead haiti going forward. Certainly theres a role for diplomats and those that can try to advice and assist and move the political process forward, But thats the heart of the issue here, noting that haiti has every other conceivaBle challenge that one could imagine. But i just dont see the military mission. I dont see the task and the associated purpose that would Be a reason to put our forces on the ground, again, in the center of what is a very, very Big struggle for political power that has included the force of arms and the fact of the assassination of the previous president. General petraeus, always a pleasure to have you on. The pleasure is mine, fareed, thank you. Next on gps, from haiti to its neighBor to the northwest, cuBa. Will the protests there lead to any real changes, when we come Back. [narrator] at southern new hampshire university, were committed to making college more accessiBle By making it more affordaBle. 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Last Sunday Thousands came out in cuBa to protest against the government. It was the Biggest such demonstration in decades. Yesterday the government responded with what it called a revolutionary Reaffirmation Rally held near the u. S. EmBassy. Government supporters were heard chanting down with the yankees. What happens next in cuBa . Will anything change . Atta ferrer joins me now. Shes a professor at nyu. Welcome. So the first question, professor, is will this lead to anything other than a further crackdown and more oppression . Thanks for having me. First of all, as a historian, i always have to start off By warning you that its way too soon to tell what the result and what the legacy of these unprecedented protests will Be. I think there are three things that we have to watch for. As i said, nothing like this has happened in i would say in 60 degrees, since 1960 or so. So well have to see if the fact that these protests happen, that they were extended across the island in more than 30 cities and towns, the fact that it happened makes the prospect of antigovernment moBilization, antigovernment protests more thinkaBle, more imaginaBle for average citizens. So well have to wait and see if that translates, again, for ordinary cuBans into participating in and heeding the calls to protest. So thats one thing we have to watch for. The second thing we have to watch for, as you mentioned, is government oppression. The government came out very quickly and Began arresting dissidents definitely, independent journalists, But also the protesters on the streets. We saw videos of Plainclothes Security forces, of uniformed Security Forces arresting people, Beating people, and one of the things that i found most interesting in watching the videos of that is that you could see the people, the witnesses express their disgust and their repudiation of those strongarm tactics. And its interesting, as a historian i can think Back to the 1950s and the original cuBan revolution. In that movement against the dictatorship, young people were very moBilized. Students were very moBilized. And one of the things that turned a more general puBlic opinion against the government was watching the government repress and Beat and enact physical violence on young protesters. So it will Be interesting to see whether that happens in this case. Government repression can Be a very, very effective tool. The cuBan government knows that. But it could also feed sources and the forces of discontent on the island. Finally, the third thing to watch for just quickly one last thing to watch for is that the protesters are very diverse ideologically. Theres not one all want change But not all agree with what that change should Be or how it should Be achieved so well have to watch in the coming months or so whether a consensus develops among the opposition. So what should the Biden administration do . This is in some ways coming at an interesting moment Because Barack-oBama'>Barack OBama had opened up ties to cuBa. He had allowed a lot more travel and trade, remittances from Ban-americans'>CuBan Americans and the u. S. Was going to cuBa. Trump reversed all that, tightened the sanctions. What should Biden do . Yeah. Well, its a huge question. First of all, ive Been studying cuBa for 30 years, for over 30 years. I was in cuBa when Bama'>President OBama visited. Ive never seen a sense of hope in the future feel so palpaBle among the cuBan people, right . And now that theyre in the midst of this economic crisis made worse By many things, trumps tightening of the emBargo, the covid pandemic, decisions By its own government, an economic reform thats going very, very Badly, all that, right . And i think that a lot of times in history, crises and frustrations feel deeper and feel more that much more painful if they come after a period of heightened expectations. And i think thats what we have here. So now what does Biden do . I dont think there are calls for him to end the emBargo. I dont think he will do that. He didnt run on that as part of his platform. And the situation in cuBa now makes it more difficult for him to do something like that Because it will Be seen as rewarding the cuBan government. He did run, however, on Ending Parts of the trump restrictions that made life more difficult for the cuBan people. Many expected him, for example, to allow remittances again. Remittances is the money that family in the u. S. Sends to relatives and friends Back on the island. That was stopped completely under the trump administration. So there have Been you know, people expect Biden to start those again. He said this week he wouldnt. And i think that was really unfortunate. CuBans depend on help from their family. We know, and Ban-americans'>CuBan Americans certainly know that the cuBan government taxes those remittances. Still, Ban-americans'>CuBan Americans if given the choice, many would continue to send the money. So over 50 of cuBans in miami under normal circumstances send money and goods and other things to their family on the island. That would Be happening now, certainly under this crisis. And my sense is that Ban-americans'>CuBan Americans should have that choice. My mother, who died last year, used to send hated the cuBan government But used to send 100 every three months to her sister in havana. CuBan americans should have the choice to do that if they want. 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I saw Vernon Jordan and the role he played with Bill clinton in the 1990s when he was the only one around him who had actual stature and could speak to him in a Body'>Way NoBody else could. So i saw an entirely different kind of relationship Between a Body'>Leader And AnyBody else around them. I saw how this Best friend could speak more Bluntly, act more naturally to any staffer or aide. And as i write in my Book actually affect important policy. I went to president ial literature and saw Books aBout first wives, first chefs, first Butlers But there was nothing aBout this dynamic so i thought why not write it. And you Begin with an extraordinary pair, Thomas Jefferson and james madison. And the reason i find them so fascinating is this is really a case of opposites attracting. They were so different in so many ways, yet you descriBe this really close and deep Bond that was Both intellectual and personal. Yeah. I actually think its the most important friendship in american history in the sense of all that flowed from it. It was for me really a joining of two force fields, two Brilliant men fused By mutual interests, shared values, that Basically shaped the contours of the country that we live in today. I dont think its an overstatement to say that Because of this 50year friendship, and we understand it so much through the 1250 letters that they exchanged Between them, we have such duraBle structures that we almost take for granted, like our constitution, our Bill of rights, the twoparty system, even the puBlic University System that so many students enjoy. As you said, what makes it all the more remarkaBle, fareed, is how different these two men were, physically for sure But even temperamentally. Jefferson was this tall, dashing, optimistic guy. Madison was tiny, 54, he was reserved, he worried all the time. But somehow it worked in comBination. Jefferson needed madisons precise mind, his very practical nature as much as Madison Needed JeffersonsBold ideas, large personality. You know, i write in the Book that it was almost like the Human Equivalent of checks and Balances. I think without the other, frankly, neither would have Become president. Frankly, i dont think its an overstatement to say either would have accomplished as much as each did. You have a fascinating story, the story of Franklin Roosevelt and daisy sukely. Roosevelt, the most important president of the 20th century By far is this enigma Because he was a very outwardly directed person. Very rarely not introspective. You rarely got a sense of who he was and of course he died Before he wrote any memoirs, so his letters to daisy, which were discovered only recently, are the window into him. What did you learn aBout that relationship . Well, first of all, as you know from reading a lot of Biographies of fdr, he loved to Be around women and he had powerful women surrounding him his own life. Missy lehan, frances perkins. The reason i put Daisy Sickly in there, she earned the distinction of first friend not By advising on a critical Policy Decision or speaking hard truths to him like so many other friends in my Book did, But just By Being his constant and loyal come companion. What i found so surprising aBout fdr is how lonely he felt in the white house. Hes fighting depression, hes fighting a world war, But he had no home life. He had no real emotional relationship with his wife, eleanor, who was out of d. C. Most of the time crusading for her causes. So he says to daisy one time im either exhiBit a or left entirely alone. Daisy was the anecdote to that loneliness. She came him the comfort he need. Ed. She could read his emotions Better than anyone else and was his favorite person to relax with. One day in 1942 he had 22 separate meetings. Afterward i would have wanted to crawl in a hole. What did he want to do . He wanted to have dinner alone with daisy. She could intu it his might not in a Body'>Way NoBody else could. I asked historian John Alter Why was she so important and he said he would have Been less settled and natural president without daisy. Gary, this is such a terrific Book Because theres so many more stories we didnt get to, clinton and Vernon Jordan, Franklin Pierce and hawthorne, the novelist. So all i can say to people is Buy the Book. This is your summer read. Thank you very much, fareed. Next on gps, the shocking assassination of the president of haiti is just the latest Bloody chapter in a long political volatile history. Why is haiti so trouBled . We have the answer. Ill tell you when we come Back. Ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, Balanced nutrition for strength and energy. 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The trouBles at the top have only added to haitis other proBlem. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. On a host of indicators from literacy to Life Expectancy to infant mortality, haiti is By far the Worstoff Country in latin america. Its neighBor to the east with whom it shares the island, the dominican repuBlic, has more than six times haitis per capita gdp. So how did haiti get here . The answer, like most, lies in history. Haiti was once san doming, the richest colony in the cariBBean. It was the Jewel Ain frances crown. It supplied half the Worlds Coffee and 40 of its sugar according to historian david Bell. The french shipped a huge numBer of slaves to The Colony to work its plantations. They were literally worked to death. These slaves had an average Life Expectancy of just 21 years. In 1791, the slaves, who outnumBered white men on The Colony 161 revolted. For 12 years led By the former slaveturnedreBel leader, they fought against the french settlers, eventually defeating napoleons army. On january 1st, 1804, the reBels founded the worlds first free Black repuBlic. Far Before the rest of the world, haitis founders took the lessons of the french revolution, the Universal Rights Of Man across the atlantic to their logical conclusion. The country estaBlished freedom for Black people, not just white men. Because this was a radical idea at the time, western countries, including the United States, shunned haiti. World leaders traded minimally with it. They didnt want to contriBute to the wealth of a nation Born of a slavery B reBellion. France even demanded a sum of reparations to compensate for the loss of human property, meaning slaves, from the war. In 1825 the haitian president agreed and the deBt crippled the country, which could only pay it Back in full By 1947. In 1914, washington decided to intervene in the countrys affairs, largely to staBilize its finances and deBt payments. That occupation lasted until 1934 But washington effectively controlled the country for years after that. All this foreign domination marked haitis political culture indelaBly. UnderstandaBly suspicious of western countries, haiti did not try to get much in forms of investment or trade. In the years after independence, the Merchant Class and the army joined together to extract revenues from haitis majority, its rural peasants, the only productive memBers of haitian society. Farmers growing coffee were taxed at 40 of their incomes. And this created a pattern for rulers to come in the entire political class, a sadly familiar pattern in resourcerich countries. Haitis leadership never invested seriously in industry. Politics was the main avenue to amass wealth. Violence Became necessary to silence complaints. 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