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my understanding is that afghanistan we've where nearly got a fixed okay just
another ten years or so
and another trillion dollars or so and we've nailed
now the
for the kidney aside
brave new films deal another great video
on
how more on this war is of course literally
the longest war we've ever had
solis was that the upper someone for a robbery in waltham brave st
but june second u_s_ troops will be in afghanistan for one hundred four months
more than that they have here is
the longest u_s_ war
surpassing the economic is the longest war in american history
india is a war for which there is no end in sight
i think of this war conflict not spam
it's essentially a the same sort of horror from our point of view fighting
people
for amendment motivated
by the
determination to excel foreign invaders from their country adolescents uh...
vietnam stacked
counterinsurgency in support of an unpopular government just won't work
because apply the same lessons afghanistan we haven't actually didn't
feel that there's no hair
too long for associated with the government is significantly before
colors i use so no more no less corrupt problem henderson
the public's disciplined supported in vietnam aguilar defeat nationalism
accorded pita
entirely different culture
by military force
was a crazy idea completely crazy idea
distance from of
superpower arrogance
announcement and psychiatry is of course
president obama has washes filled
is not promise or pledged exactly how many people insist let's take a little
bit behind something big u_s_ in fact i wouldn't surprise the forum is waiting
for the foreseeable future and i i mean it's ten fifteen years gave
the vietnam war as now sixteen fifty extremely difficult borough presidents
king admits that policy failing and we have to try to
under mostly and different course a
and i've seen your year in the future insha president
will you willing to take responsibility
faced attractions veg yam cha resolution
who will be involved in development
so it's not necessarily tools many people
high winds to me
inferences only a little value election weakens us economically and militarily
and politically soon hopeless
indefinitely and prolonged the war
uh... steel
feldman steel
enrich feldblum seeps into the ground where families family one of the
shipment of the goals beneath the surface of american consciousness
and go on indefinitely until it finally
of congress
but did in vietnam which was the only way that will continue
and that was pressed by popular desire to see the world
question of money and lives and
congress cut off
the whale cut off the
the pressure of mine year after year vietnam each american prisoner concluded
this is a bad here
reeks of *** that night
which never happen here
all right well there you have it but now with us al
had a brave new films and of course they built rethink afghanistan dot com
robert greenwald robert owned by the realtor
but he was great
or agreed adheres so let's first talk about
how do we get this done paint
it's we've got a lot of people agreed
article out today as well saying
hey you know what people watching congressman generals even in the field
everybody's concern that dissent is not going well
it doesn't seem like anyways got the political will to actually say it's not
going well and i'm cutting the funding that's at the war is over
so how do we get backed up
i think the way to get that that is the way without chechen it's you and your
audience audiences around
the country
who say we're mad as hell
and his partners and the wonderful column the other day
it takes courage to end the war
doesn't take cards to keep a keepers senseless war going
thousands and thousands of death
billions of dollars
and is not one person in this world
was any safer
because of this war
well so now obama said we're going to withdraw by july twenty eleven or we can
begin the withdrawal from afghanistan at that point
given how the generals are pushing the state longer in some way of course as
soon as they gave the place of honor they would
get out by then then they start became pain to stay longer
what do you think i would indicate that part of it is that for good enough
well i think that
we've seen directors scribe the generals fox for paul mitchell corner expression
for more troops is alan grayson said rethink afghanistan
asking the generals if they want
how many troops they want to ask his five-year-old which can be papered
and snacks all the activity balaji
but i think we all have a job u_s_ really have a chance on this one
are rethinking afghanistan face book page there is a thirty five thousand
people
who are passionately committed to telling all of this friends
about the many reasons we have to get out
and the pressure we have to create we don't have pressure
obvi lected officials that we can only blame ourselves and i will tell you in
talking to senators and talking to house members
most of them are unhappy with the war
they're not fully informed but over and over again that's a plus we're not
hearing from our stations
so i would urge everyone who's an
watching michelle listening to the show to try to get involved with us on the
facebook page is all of that
activism and its all about creating fresh
at the other thing we got to do the robert is change the conversation
as they almost burke said in that video and as we've seen over and over again
if you talk about withdrawal after you start anymore doesn't matter how
disastrous it is like at the rack work than many thought about withdrawal they
say another sit your week
and as long as politicians are considerably for withdrawn from a war
then we've got such a mp bigger up hill battle the crime so how do we change
that
perception that frame
is accomplished the first two days to declare victory
al-qaeda according to general trace is no longer in afghanistan he's gone
they're gone one ppm directly
so and i truly and accurately weakened state
the biblical needs to get rid of a survivor terrorists we have done that
number one and the second is to take it off fences position
about the problems were against an and most significantly from earth
partisan politics political point of view
about the politics of
what we do about security
and has lots you can do aggressively about security which could be combined
with getting the troops out of their because people who are increasingly
upset about the cost of the war the recent survey out
strong percentage believed that the war is not worth what it's costing us that's
one of the points you and i thought that we've been hammering get everything they
have to have a standard billions and billions of dollars and and that is
never enough money for jobs
is never enough money to help get is there enough money to save people's
homes but for every last vote that that
unusable is always plenty of
so www robert whenever we have these countries i always worry about
you know the people left in a stamp
and worry about
leaving
for example were having trouble on the margin district that was supposed to be
showcased
mccur source was to go and then knock that off the board in ga polida good we
are
now let's go to kandahar exhibiting turn out that way it turns out we are bogged
down in in march up already and that was supposed to be easy
part of the problem is that the taliban you know there's it knowledge strong but
i'm afraid so we pull out then they're going to just take marta they need to
kandahar
and their loathsome so
one how about the promises we made to the afghani people how do we
bring that to a resolution what happens to that
float promises that we uh... ha feedback military invasion and occupation that
the people of afghanistan
are opposed to i was in afghanistan i spent time did talk to the virtually
anybody in hudson koppel's he did not want to go outside couple but anybody in
coppell was strongly opposed to the taliban and they were as strongly oppose
occupation of their country
there's so much that could be done
but it's not these problems cannot be solved by military it could be solved by
teachers by jobs by economic trendy human rights all kinds of things
what we're doing velvet make no mistake about your intervening in a civil war
between us
combat and some of the world's is not the good guys against the bed speech to
our motorists at the moment
we have video of thousands of people from the market
because they terrifying of the farm force sf
the civilian casualties over and over and over again
apartments that karzai passed the warlords are despicable and shrink the
women in afghanistan and people who have garrison as badly or worst in some areas
of the country so i don't mean to fully depress everyone but we need to be clear
it's not the guys versus bad guys here we've made a decision for reasons that
very very hard fact really think about it to intervene in this civil war that
this is a classic case if we were not in that what you think anybody in his right
mind would be safe less than a hundred thousand troops for afghanistan start a
war over there were in the war covering the war and therefore he picked up
that's a very important
every because
sasaki does not have denis leary more people were did it right now
no one in their right mind would say six and a hundred thousand rooster
afghanistan's
s invested billions of dollars a month and can you imagine that you would do
something like that house and senate instead
here the troops here the contract is either the kids about funds for the war
with the with a third world country in the world for reasons we can't really
articulate but we want to do it because if you want to use their s_l_ you go to
war with somalia or yemen right now yes that yes
so i a lot a lot of them ideas
buddy
or who allowed slavery robert is there a way to blend in school graduation but is
there a way to pull in the republicans
because they're so worried
ready to oppose oh bummer for any reasons
yeah were on the opposite side before but they don't care about that
is there a way to bring them and say hey you know what may be that impose a bomb
a by pulling out of afghanistan
well i have been talking to some republicans primarily libertarians or
of the conservatives who was ideology is really a kind of isolationist ideology
they don't believe we should be in fifty militarily you noticed any place that
doesn't really affect national security so i think there is an opportunity as
you know without romp or was very strongly against the war
you know and bracingly introduced a bill to get it
we hope to be doing more work with them
and i think there are opportunities that the democrats are conclusively uh...
large large numbers are against it
and as a friend of mine who have not yet met senate obama does not get a senator
expand he's a one-term president and i really think it's that profile
it's that corrosive and it's going to have that make it threat
so we can all work that you are ten europe office i think we all knew him
and his presidency enormous favored by actively forcing the issue on this car
but the final uh... group
thing that i liked in this area that i got out of this interview it was the new
word opa menace
like that we use that from our caves specific robert greenwald from brave new
films training films dot org really think afghanistan dot com and the face
book page we think afghanistan
based on what for doing this really appreciate it