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Show 322 - Betting on Long Shots

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

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Afghanistan

The military truism that gets people into trouble is this idea that other people have had problems in those situations, but because of x, y or z, we don't have to pay attention. This is connected both to hubrus, this idea of overvaluing your position and undervaluing the enemy's thinking more highly of yourself than perhaps is warranted. In the country, the united states of america looks at this debacle in afghanistan and sees a defeat, right? It's no good way to spin that lost. Our people are both dead and wounded. Paid a fortune, left a lot of afghans hanging, literally. But some people did pretty well. Mean,

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