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326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues"

The Fifth Column

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The Corruption of Language in This Debate

"We have invested so much unnecessary emotional energy and we have just stripped all real meaning of some of these very important words to apply to political adversaries," he says. "That has an kind of effect, which is that I don't think if we would have said 15 years ago, you know, if we pull these 2500 forces, the way we're doing it right now, the Taliban will take over."

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