Withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Impact of Global Corruption with Sarah Chayes
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The US Military Relationships With Military Officials Are Detrimental to What We're Trying to Do
The issue here isn't military tactics. It's not shoot and maneuver. In fact, if anything, we were teaching Afghans to be a conventional army which is almost always at a disadvantage when it's faced with very mobile, very dedicated insurgency. And therefore, what would win the war is if Afghans were proud of their government. But if Afghans felt like their government was treating them basically as badly as the Taliban were, they would say, you know, the Taliban shake us down at night and the government shake us down in the daytime. You know, so how can you expect those people to stick their necks out much less actually take the field on behalf of a government that they're ashamed of
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