Today hello everyone, and welcome to the Amanpour Hour but heres where were headed this week. Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. Will Kamala Harris be able to chart her own path on the World Stage, u. S Ambassador And Democrat bigwig rahm manu, ways in what would a second Trump Worldview Look like . His former Pentagon Policy Maker on america first 2. 0 were heading towards the iceberg and i think if we continue on the current trajectory, were going to ram right into it. I think the Trumpvance Agenda offers us a very good way of avoiding World War three in a way that protects our interests also, this hour, this book is my testimony to the trial that never took place on an adn on accusing wikileaks, Julian Assange of Sexual Assault, and surviving as the most hated woman on the internet then changing the rules of philanthropy at the Ford Foundation and why Darren Walker thinks that time is right to step down, kid in a small town finding them felt as president
To try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why . There are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen . Why did it happen after a 20 Year Campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars . How is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban . The other question i was asked was just what was it like . What was the Human Element of this . What was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a Carrier Bag . What was it like for the people on the ground . And what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years . You are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that, sitting here with me now, that trauma is still ve
To move on, to try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why . There are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen . Why did it happen after a 20 Year Campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars . How is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban . The other question i was asked was just what was it like . What was the Human Element of this . What was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a Carrier Bag . What was it like for the people on the ground . And what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years . You are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that, sitting here with me now, that trauma
Withdrawalfrom kabul. Many people would choose to move on, to try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why . There are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen . Why did it happen after a 20 Year Campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars . How is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban . The other question i was asked was just what was it like . What was the Human Element of this . What was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a Carrier Bag . What was it like for the people on the ground . And what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years . You are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you
Eyes. Its the story of rapid action with ongoing consequences. The desperation in afghanistan today, the withdrawal of american troops, the return to power of the taliban, it all began with a decision immediately after the 9 11 attacks to respond with war. Well show you through the lens of the Nbc News archives how america went from a quiet week in September 2001 to a Military Footing that would last for 20 years. Along the way, well hear from a veteran of afghanistan and iraq, now Congressman Jason Crow and well ask him the question that used to be almost taboo. Was the decision to invade afghanistan made in too much haste . Did we rush into war . Our story begins on september 10, 2001. When President George W. Bush used his Fighting Words for an altogether peaceful cause against a very different enemy. There are too many of our Kids In America who cant read today. Maybe not in this school, but around the nation there is just too many. And now its time to wage war on illiteracy for th