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General stanley mcchrystal, former head ofjoint special operations command in 2013 said about his time in iraq, "when you become the torturer, something happens. "i think it has a corrosive effect over time. "i think you move down a path that is difficult to come back from." does it affect you? does it change you in some way? i think it makes you more empathetic to what people are experiencing. remember that the reason that waterboarding wasnt done more than it was was because the interrogators ...

Mistaken notion that we can somehow make the islamists who are attacking us like us, that if we just spent more time with the islamists, trying to convince them that it would be ok, but i spent years with khalid sheikh mohammed and the other high—level, the top 1a or so terrorists that the us captured, and it was clear to me from talking to them that there was nothing that we were going to do that would allow them to accept western democracy. in fact, they said western democracy and true shari...

>> i think some of these people have their way, they would set the russians remittances too appear thus their thought process about all of this is whats the big deal? the russian presence in cuba is real. its a signal station that collects intelligence and special operations command, they are already there, wouldnt surprise me if they sent these military contractors they use all over the world but in the end, this regime has been mortally wounded, lost its legitimacy. it is a dying animal and we...

>> i think some of these people have their way, they would set the russians remittances too thats their thought process about all of this is whats the big deal? the russian presence in cuba is real. its a signal station that collects intelligence and special operations command, they are already there, wouldnt surprise me if they sent these military contractors they use all over the world but in the end, this regime has been mortally wounded, lost its legitimacy. im not saying its going to be qui...

Yes. >> lucas, the people we are taking out of there literally are our translators, and helped us. what do you make of kevin mccarthys answer? >> i would say when i look back at iraq, so i went to iraq as well and afghanistan with the interpreters who helped us there, and you know, i got special operations command, and i still leaned on these guys to get us through every day. i know -- i can remember a specific instance where my interpreter in iraq probably saved my life, and i know that happene...

The military side of the kabul airport. you had to push through crowds, push through the taliban. after that, suicide bombing, killed 200 afghans, 13 service members, most marines, got more difficult. the taliban who are partners, temporary partners with the u.s. military pushed out the perimeter, and then in the last 24 hours, gates really have been sealed. for the last 48 hours, almost sealed. there have been a few buses, special permission, special access that could have been negotiated. even...

13 and again in 14 i went to afghanistan and i learned the language pashto of southern afghanistan in marines special operations command before i went and i spoke to taliban, i worked with afghan security forces, i talked to locals and after -- this is 2014, take 2014, 13 years after we had been there, my job was still to do all of the logistics for our partnering force so they wouldnt get overrun by the taliban, food, water, ammunition, equipment, literally everything, after 13 years and i reme...

SINGAPORE, Aug 28 — The police have arrested eight men, aged 21 to 55, who jumped off a fibreglass boat and were swimming to shore near Tuas yesterday (August 27). The men, whose nationality was not stated, will be charged today with unlawful entry to Singapore. In June this year, five men were...

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the debacle in Afghanistan with Danny Sjursen, a graduate of West Point Military Academy, former US Army major and author

Need to prove in effect that they have ties to the u.s. government. it sounds like they -- theyre being asked to give up that hope just to protect themselves? >> but remember these are people who have a connection with someone in the u.s. who could vouch for them. >> i know this person -- >> i have seen letters of testimony from former heads of the joints special operations command for different groups of people saying these people worked for us, here is how we train them to hunt the taliban and...