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when are we going to start the war-crimes trials
we just on this yesterday now that we know
the the extent of the involvement
in iraq and i would add afghanistan to that
somehow that story in the washington post
that iran before we start dropping bombs on afghanistan
where the taliban
formally and publicly said to the world's media
we'll you-know-who canine eleven if you think us all about the blood was behind
it
show us some evidence
and we will arrests osama bin laden and his merry band there is only couple
thousand the whole countries afghanistan in the in the taliban certainly knew
where they were the taliban a lot of guns
will arrest them and we will turn over to a third country for prosecution
and richard a bush didn't even respond
instead it was like okay let's take a country
afghanistan
now i i i realize there's all kinds of righteous outrage in indignation to the
next month is the tenth anniversary of our
uh... starting a bomb iraq based on lies
but you know worry in the eleventh year i think maybe maybe a little bit more of
the warning against it
and his lager more were to do it slaughter in the korean war slaughter in
vietnam into a text to sis insane
and somehow we completely forgotten that it could've been avoided
and what bush did is he took a country
they had that was the poorest country in the world
x is the second poorest and north korea
at the time
agility of too
loop billion dollars
manages to put that perspective i mean that that
that that's a gross domestic that the entire economic activity of the entire
country of afghanistan every year was two billion dollars
now we've spent
you know well over a trillion dollars there that's two thousand billion
dollars
we're spending a million dollars per soldier per year to put soldiers
which they are less money and ron's military command
we spent yelled in the in the first few weeks we spent ten or fifteen
billion dollars
taking down the country whose entire annual gross domestic product was two
billion dollars
the average income in afghanistan was three hundred dollars a year
we could have saved a trillion dollars if we'd simply said to the taliban you
know you guys you got a country with a double-digit annual g_d_p_ of two
billion
we will be double your wealth
if you commit to using at least half of the money to build schools for girls and
and
you know other putting a positive things that are upgrade the infrastructure your
country and
make it can stand a better country
he dares to take the credit for it because what happens is when you when
you upgrade a country
and particularly educate the girls
people like taliban you know over the next course the next generation they
lose their power
this is just i mean this is like water rolling down a hill
taliban is not all that different from the power of the church in the in the
thirteenth century in europe
and the enlightenment came along and
i was the end of that
excuse me if the uh...
the renaissance
as a consequence the black plague which killed off a third of the europeans and
so suddenly had a tight labor market in a middle class emerged
but idec grass
so if we have simply said to afghanistan
brenneke guys wretch
everybody in the country you know we were in a double your minimum wage
with our money
mcauliffe ornate
i've kept at that time we were getting i believe about four five billion dollars
a year israel egypt
maybe a little more
so i mean to get a lot
just give us bin laden an al-qaeda you guys do the dirty work
not a single u_s_ soldier has to die
and we will give you an amount of money that you know at the pentagon spends in
a day and doesn't even notice
in fact will give you arm mamata money that's a fraction of the two trillion
dollars that's missing me from the pentagon period we can even figure out
where a wet
but uh... george bush won the war
and so he bond back to the stone age a country that was already living in
stalin's
literally in houses made of stalin's
afghanistan
a country with the two billion dollar annual g_d_p_ at the time that we
invaded and now i realize it's higher now because we're cutting all of our
deck economic activity inside the country's g_d_p_
so the c_i_a_ factbook now says it's like what ten or eleven billion dollar
nonsense
poll is out of there
they call a military stuff out of that they're back to a pity party a
billion-dollar jeep you know 'cause we've damage so much the country
but if we have simply gone in with foreign aid and said fine here's the
evidence about a month
please send into egypt for trial
or qatar or saudi arabia or are you pockets dot i don't care sanam someplace
for trial
will agree on a
here's the information and by the way
here's a couple billion dollars rebuild your country
so that the taliban was so that the recently uh... calcutta will not have
another place to have a football
patient we have learned from the soviets mistake in afghanistan they try to fight
them for a decade
have bankrupted the soviet union
we're still the
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