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Owe ozanian and bruce. What do you think, the cost of closing more than the cost of keeping it open . David, you never close a pow camp until you win the war. We know from past experience when you release these people many of them do go back to trying to fight against us in this war on terror. So this is blood on the ground, innocent lives are being put in jeopardy and in terms of that swap that was disproportionate. Usually like during the civil war you have a certain number, you swap for a certain physical. This was just totally asymmetrical as they say, totally disproportionate and innocent people are going to pay their lives for it. Bruce to steves point 30 of those released are either confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terror. Thats a big number. Well, my problem with this whole gitmo situation is that it was created on the myth that the u. S. Judicial system couldnt andel prisoners in the war on terror and i think it reminds people if it reminds me of torture and that whole ....
Owe ozanian and bruce. What do you think, the cost of closing more than the cost of keeping it open . David, you never close a pow camp until you win the war. We know from past experience when you release these people many of them do go back to trying to fight against us in this war on terror. So this is blood on the ground, innocent lives are being put in jeopardy and in terms of that swap that was disproportionate. Usually like during the civil war you have a certain number, you swap for a certain physical. Totally asymmetrical as they say, totally disproportionate and innocent people are going to pay their lives for it. Bruce to steves point 30 of those released are either confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terror. Thats a big number. Well, my problem with this whole gitmo situation is that it was created on the myth that the u. S. Judicial system couldnt andel prisoners in the war on terror and i think it reminds people if it reminds me of torture and that whole bad chapter in ....
Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany afte ....
Oh, yes, you can. Thats what a war is all about. And general mccristal and others said mcchrystal said we should spend 95 of our effort persuading the people and 5 attacking the enemy. That makes no sense. If you start putting all these restrictions upon the use of force, do you know that we ended up having a lawyer in every battalion who had to decide whether we could use air in an attack for fear that somebody would be courtmartialed . So we put restrictions on ourselves beyond the restrictions that police have in major cities in the United States. Host bing west, in your view, was the iraq war necessary . [laughter] guest with perfect 20 20 hindsight . Absolutely not. Host at the time what did you think . Guest at the time i did because i believed then, as did most of the American Public and the congress, that Saddam Huss ....