"The war in afghanistan could have had something plausibly resembling victory," says Peter Bergen. The united states is rented army of resistance to the taliban, writes Bergen. "As long as and so the united states puts itself in a position to do nothing but lose this war", adds Bergen.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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