time for today's daily lance's davis the young turks term jane here is more fired up than
ever about america's longest war thinking it may be time to devote more resources to
solving are own problems jen before as yours are taken out
well let me give you a quick review what i am about to say we gotta get that hal out
of afghanistan
but let me tell you why bring it up today we have now new interesting week helix revelations
about one hundred cars i believe i can send actually thinks in cables back home our ambassador
car like a very apparent we talked about away uh... cars i thought cars of the here's the
quote karzai then returned to a familiar theme
his wish for afghan u_s_ relations
to recover the spirit of two thousand
to it all for that period karzai sees
as a golden age in the relationship
all the good old days of george w_ bush and not paying any attention afghanistan whose
we've spent a lot less resources back then and by the way we left the sabu mun escape
which was supposed to be the point in the first place
but apparently for cars that was the golden years
he goes on talk about how the americans were greeted here's another partly cables quote
he would like for u_s_ forces began to be able to drive
there how mister villages greeted warmly by villagers who was shout
good morning sergeant tom sent
one is for the problem
week they've already forgotten who sergeant obs and has been a while he's there
that we had a couple was amazing
in help-wanted in kandahar they asked uh... the folks uh... that live there
pay uh... what
percentage of you know why the americans are here
off late night only
eight percent had any idea what that meant was or even that they just love and war fighting
them because they're here thank you presented no i_p_o_ that denial of the tax
theoretically kind of originated from that and it's there
led by saudis by the way
scope
they're finding us 'cause one and i like this
expectorant
there
like sergeant houses on my belly stuff and they're gone
happy
so it now when you ask america does that concern there would be asked americans
well unitel whether this qso we got from a_b_c_ news washington post
uh... only thirty four percent say that it's worth fighting
sixty percent say that it's not worth fighting the war that's as high as it got
during the height of the rap ward is esther so hot much of more evidence to link but less
aggressive action this fall
world where would you rather spend resources
which country would you rather invest in
afghanistan
or america
my guess is that pulled him out what eighty nine percent ninety percent a hundred and
twenty percent in favor of america
what are we winning in afghanistan mad and sad
we gotta go we gotta go now we're gonna wait till least twenty fourteen who's in favor
of its
if you have any as afghans are in favor but americans are in favor of it the only people
in our favorite
are the people that continue to make money off that war they're gonna make money for
another four years
and maybe even longer this is outrageous we've got a year
i wish i could find initiate and to get you a little exercise
somehow twenty four
i think it is at a point the defense contractors but you've got presumably some well-meaning
people in the as a lot of power in both parties now the presence of two parties who have supported
what's going to be a twenty-year war by the time we're done because
two thousand fourteen hours when work doing that hand off but you hear quietly they're
still talking about training people and training troops training police
well that may be god's work but it's a hundred thousand troops a hundred and fifty billion
dollars a year
how does it happen that a great power ends up twenty years like this where like russia
organise conrad we're getting stuck there like quite a bit of a great power have to
get stuck in afghanistan is like a rite of passage what this is a tiny percentage of
is that fear is that all the great empires have i get that right and a lot of it is politics
but why is that the parties
one of the republicans say we can never ever lead any war why did the press kits scared
of that and say or don't like that unless they are the ones in the same as we
so those are the consequences but there is no cause is always the money
but were spending tomb billion dollars all weekend at this applies only to america respective
billion dollars here
the people were getting that money it's the defense contractors
so they create a political environment which it becomes untenable unreasonable to ever
leave
war so it's it's funny because i wanted sometimes if
well your policy maker who grew up in canada instead of artistic and it is about a but
you grew up in canada instead of the united states do not grow up with this kind of imperial
hubris that says
when i picture eva high-level i will try and move the global chess pieces
in ways that end up winning maybe with good intentions to rio follies just of mindset
well the point is cuba's no question about that without a part of it is that the public
address system might also be in perfect
all their politicians are not deeply bought
our politicians
run their campaigns make some money that they get from lobbyists
that affects everything including the decision
to go and to stay in
and yet i do think you got amplified it must be some files innocent soldiers on the ground
who believes somehow in the negativity wrongheaded
it seems too much to say it's all monte that seems a little too well
make a new york calls all you know i didn't think he can your financial german history
political tell the guys on the ground offering stuff but one of them and we're gonna win
win win win a nobody even knows nobody can ask that question right
but what part did individual politicians governors themselves to the soldiers convinced themselves
that it's about winning and freedom i'm sure they do but the result of but the real root
there
motivation behind it as are the people who laid out that strategy take to get us there
and it's costing eleven twenty five billion dollars this year alone as somebody's make
enough money