Artwork

Inhalt bereitgestellt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast-App
Gehen Sie mit der App Player FM offline!

How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies

1:04:42
 
Teilen
 

Manage episode 508235493 series 2563781
Inhalt bereitgestellt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.

Lasting 20 years, the war in Afghanistan was not only the longest conflict in American history—it was a near total failure.

Today's guest is Dan Krauss, whose documentary Bodyguard of Lies is an unflinching look at the Afghan war and the lessons the public desperately needs to learn from it. Krauss shows how officials such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted they weren't going to be honest with the American people. He reminds us that within six months of the 9/11 attacks, the United States had essentially destroyed Al Qaeda's capacity to attack us—but instead of leaving, Washington chose two more decades of occupation, nation-building, strategic confusion, and widespread corruption. And he tells how Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama kept doubling down, how trillions of dollars and thousands of lives were wasted, and how a compliant press and Congress let it all happen.

0:00—Introduction

1:14—Donald Rumsfeld and the "bodyguard of lies"

4:59—The Afghanistan War in 2002

7:35—The shifting objectives of the war

18:20—Government corruption in Afghanistan

21:08—Vietnam parallels

29:57—Obama and the Afghanistan War

33:42—The military-industrial complex and tracking the money

36:53—Gen. David McKiernan

43:47—What lessons have Americans learned?

50:30—Did the Afghanistan War make us safer?

1:01:28—What is the message of Bodyguard of Lies?

Upcoming Reason Events

"Is mass immigration good for America?" Join us for a Reason Versus live debate on October 2 in Washington, D.C.

The post How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies appeared first on Reason.com.

  continue reading

400 Episoden

Artwork
iconTeilen
 
Manage episode 508235493 series 2563781
Inhalt bereitgestellt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.

Lasting 20 years, the war in Afghanistan was not only the longest conflict in American history—it was a near total failure.

Today's guest is Dan Krauss, whose documentary Bodyguard of Lies is an unflinching look at the Afghan war and the lessons the public desperately needs to learn from it. Krauss shows how officials such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted they weren't going to be honest with the American people. He reminds us that within six months of the 9/11 attacks, the United States had essentially destroyed Al Qaeda's capacity to attack us—but instead of leaving, Washington chose two more decades of occupation, nation-building, strategic confusion, and widespread corruption. And he tells how Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama kept doubling down, how trillions of dollars and thousands of lives were wasted, and how a compliant press and Congress let it all happen.

0:00—Introduction

1:14—Donald Rumsfeld and the "bodyguard of lies"

4:59—The Afghanistan War in 2002

7:35—The shifting objectives of the war

18:20—Government corruption in Afghanistan

21:08—Vietnam parallels

29:57—Obama and the Afghanistan War

33:42—The military-industrial complex and tracking the money

36:53—Gen. David McKiernan

43:47—What lessons have Americans learned?

50:30—Did the Afghanistan War make us safer?

1:01:28—What is the message of Bodyguard of Lies?

Upcoming Reason Events

"Is mass immigration good for America?" Join us for a Reason Versus live debate on October 2 in Washington, D.C.

The post How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies appeared first on Reason.com.

  continue reading

400 Episoden

Alle Folgen

×
 
Loading …

Willkommen auf Player FM!

Player FM scannt gerade das Web nach Podcasts mit hoher Qualität, die du genießen kannst. Es ist die beste Podcast-App und funktioniert auf Android, iPhone und im Web. Melde dich an, um Abos geräteübergreifend zu synchronisieren.

 

Kurzanleitung

Hören Sie sich diese Show an, während Sie die Gegend erkunden
Abspielen