unbelievable day. i think we re going to hear more about some of the heroes of the actual bottle october 3rd, 2009, in the days ahead because some of them will be given some big awards. we hear about the greatest generation. but anybody who has spent any time around the men and women that fought over the past decade in iraq and in afghanistan, despite all of the bad acting in washington, d.c., you can t look at what they did under the worst of circumstances and say any generation sacrificed more or cared more than they. there s one line in the book that gets to 12 years worth of war over there and untold lives changed, altered, lost, and i think it s joe fenty who says to a village elder that the government of afghanistan is going to do something for them. and the elder says, the government of afghanistan, what is that? yeah. yeah. jake tapper, giving voice to the outpost.
the taliban don t want girls to get an education, this village elder told us. to get to school, the girls walk an hour through afghan fields in small groups and never wearing uniforms. they hide their books, and if anyone asks where they re going, they just say, to a friend s house. inside they study english, something the taliban oppose. a powerful act of defiance, one they know could get them killed. even in the relative safety of kabul, we found young girls fighting for an education. what s your favorite class? this 14-year-old s family fled their village when the taliban shut down their school. what kind of future would you have if you couldn t go to school? i think a dark future, a bad future. reporter: now she attends a regular school with hope for the future, the same hope malala yousafzai is fighting for. muhammad lila, abc news, kabul. wow. that s an amazing story. eye-opening, too, how other parts of the world live, what they contend with.
to get an education, they study in secret. we blurred their faces for safety. the taliban don t want girls to get an education, this village elder told us. to get to school, the girls walk an hour through afghan fields in small groups and never wearing uniforms. they hide their books, and if anyone asks where they re going, they just say, to a friend s house. inside they study english, something the taliban oppose. a powerful act of defiance, one they know could get them killed. even in the relative safety of kabul, we found young girls fighting for an education. what s your favorite class? this 14-year-old s family fled their village when the taliban shut down their school. what kind of future would you have if you couldn t go to school? i think a dark future, a bad future. reporter: now she attends a regular school with hope for the future, the same hope malala yousafzai is fighting for. muhammad lila, abc news, kabul.
especially a nation of 300 million people like ours. john: it s so odd to hear a senator say it s great. you went to law school and i assume they teach all lawyers that life can be managed through paper and procedure top down. the law itself lends itself to that kind of thinking. it s not altogether wrong. there are after all some areas where it s totally appropriate for us to have this village elder deference on a national scale. for instance, national defense, when it s time to go to war, we have to rally behind a leader. regulating trade between the states and foreign nations, that has to be handle at the national level. john: why does it need regulation? it s the extent of the regulation the s the critical question we have to answer. congress over the last 75 years with a little assistance from
decisions made village wise. but village wide is very difficult than nationwide. especially a nation of 300 million people like ours. john: it s so odd to hear a senator say it s great. you went to law school and i assume they teach all lawyers that life can be managed through paper and procedure top down. the law itself lends itself to that kind of thinking. it s not altogether wrong. there are after all some areas where it s totally appropriate for us to have this village elder deference on a national scale. for instance, national defense, when it s time to go to war, we have to rally behind a leader. regulating trade between the states and foreign nations, that has to be handle at the national level. john: why does it need regulation? it s the extent of the