About turns out a good political consultant consultant rory reilly topping roy thank you for joining me. Thank you as an advocate for u. S. Military veterans what has been the impact of the Washington Post release of these documents for you and a lot of a veterans you care for from that war. Sure so a lot of veterans do not support the war in afghanistan i think one of the most recent polls done showed that over 60 percent of veterans feel that we should no longer be in the country and that perhaps we shouldnt have been there at all so veterans not supporting this war thats been a sentiment thats been out there for a while so i think a lot of veterans feel vindicated in some ways particularly those that deployed to afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground theyve been articulating a lot of things that were in the Washington Post report for year. Literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling be
Exactly what many whistleblowers activists analysts and all of us independent journalists have been saying and writing about the war since the longer writing about the longest war in u. S. History since a little after it actually began back in 2001 but that doesnt mean that this latest release of documents by the post is important because it is incredibly damning to the credibility of the u. S. Government and the pentagon the post reports that the documents were in fact generated as part of a federal project examining the failures of the longest Armed Conflict in u. S. History and that they include more than 2000 pages of previously unpublished notes from interviews of there were 400 Afghanistan War insiders everyone from generals to diplomats to aide workers even afghan officials and what do all these interviews and transcripts ultimately reveal well as john sop told the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction told the post the American People have constantly been lie
Afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground theyve been articulating a lot of things that were in the Washington Post report for years literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling because after what they have witnessed and the fact that over a majority of our veterans dont support this conflict maybe people are finally going to start listening to the folks on the ground who had direct experience there its sad because thats usually the 1st people they stop listening to especially in was washington policy makers and people like that you know bob crowley an army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency advisor to u. S. Military commanders in 2013 and 14 he told interviewers as part of this report every data point was altered to present the best picture possible surveys for instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a self licking Ic
And fermented by pakistan he feels that nothing is untoward in any of this and certainly no takers for Donald Trumps offer to mediate between the 2 leaders made this week india doesnt want outside eyes on this he did in his speech reference the idea of terrorism he called for world unity around it but without mentioning either kashmir or pakistan at all almost theres yahtzee hand. We belong to a country that has given the world not war but buddhas message of peace and that is the reason why our voice against terrorism to alert the world about this evil rings was seriousness and outrage we believe that this is one of the Biggest Challenges not for any single country but for the entire world and humanity the lack of unanimity among us on the issue of terrorism dense those very principles that are the basis of the creation of the u. N. And that is why for the sake of humanity i firmly believe that its absolutely imperative that the world unite against terrorism. So as this General Assembl
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