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Evacuated from the lost war in vietnam. >> i take responsibility. i know the president has said he takes responsibility. and i know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way. >> here are the three words that president george w. bush, who started the war in afghanistan, has never said about that mistake that we are living with tonight. "i take responsibility." joining us are david rothcup, foreign affairs analyst and columnist with "the daily beast," larja abid, served two tours in...

Of you, especially you, lara, who had been there, fought in this war, on what youre feeling, what youre seeing at this stage of the evacuation. >> honestly, david mentioned this earlier today on twitter, but its really quite amazing whats happened. its not perfect. were leaving people behind, thats awful. that number keeps going up. this morning the number that i saw was 70,000, now its 87,000, this is astounding. it should have gone better, it should have been more organized. but given what hap...

Exposure to violence overseas breeds violent extremism at home. we saw this with vietnam, were seeing it now with the rise of the far right, these things are collected. colonialism comes home to roost. for the sake of the future and our soul, i think we have to end this and get back to living life without being at war all the time. >> david, one of the pressures in the coverage now and in commentators and partisans is the august 31st deadline, tremendous pressure on the president to move the aug...