BBCNEWS Dateline London August 22, 2021 10:33:00
Solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, wed got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, thats got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in this peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and its not ideological at all, its really crudely nationalist. the motives of china and russia and iran...
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