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 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 because thats usually the 1st people they stop listening to especially mos washington policymakers and people like 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 preserve the best picture possible surveys for instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a soap looking Ice Cream Cone can the American People in your opinion or the world for that matter even trust what a current or former u. S. Official tied to the Afghanistan War says today now that we have it in writing that they got everything wrong and were all white lying to us. Well i think that unfortunately this is a pattern of behavior so when you talked about some of the altering of statistics and Foreign Policy professionals and the hawks just kind of floundering to present a more favorable picture than exists this rings very familiar to a lot of us citizens and a lot of veterans in particular vietnam to your point about we often stop listening to the folks on the ground 1st when those are the folks that we should be listening to this is a classic example of history repeating itself we saw this with the vietnam conflict as well as far as the level of trust i think this gets at a much Bigger Picture for the u. S. Government this isnt just about the department of defense and what were seeing in afghanistan but were seeing this type of issue with all sorts of things that ties into the impeachment proceedings the government isnt always the good guys and for years were taught at School Children that we trust our institutions in the. They can do no wrong and were just seeing over and over again that this isnt necessarily the case so i think you raise an important point for both citizens of this country and citizens of the world they do need to question more when they see some of these Foreign Policy interventions and statistics that are being put up there because at their core bureaucracies are selfserving and the department of defense is a very large bureaucracy its the largest Government Agency that we have in the United States so they have a vested interest in making it look like everything that theyre doing is legitimate and unfortunately again weve seen throughout history not just with this recent report about whats going on in afghanistan that they have their own selfpreservation at heart as opposed to truthful reporting and transparency on the types of things that theyre doing its interesting too because a lot of the a lot of the people that this report you know as im covering these interviews rob people who you know didnt ever accept expect that these interviews would ever be made public this was like internal documents internal communications. The lie i almost want to get to a little bit of something youre true in just that i understand the Washington Post understand this is a big story but it does feel like a lot of us both journalists veterans people of the you know people who were kind of speaking out against this war for a long time and saying hey not all is out is as it seems this is i think you mentioned earlier this is a pretty good vindication of everything that the lot of these journalists independent journalist a lot of the veterans and one else has been saying over the years why do you think it took the us Mainstream Media mainstream Corporate Media so long to catch on what everyone else has been saying. Well i think that weve seen and again you know we see this in a context outside of just this report but with a lot of Current Events that are going on lately the Mainstream Media is kind of its own elite club and theyre almost in their own echo chamber where they believe what they want to believe in they have people that they go to. And they are still trusting a lot of these Government Institutions as being truthful and weve just seen over and over again that this isnt the case and addition to the media i think a lot of the blame here lies with congress i Mean Congress has Oversight Authority as well as the ability to allocate funding for these types of kong conflicts wheres the oversight i Mean Congress should be the ones asking the hard questions and getting this information so the Washington Post doesnt have to i think its a really big failure of the congressional committees that had oversight over these sorts of things because if they had been doing their job this information would have gotten out there and it wouldnt have taken a 3 year legal battle for the Washington Post to get it so i think in addition to the media we have to look at the fact that yet another Government Institution congress has failed us in this context as well i could not agree with you more that you were right on point with i want to say roy thank you so much for coming on today hopefully we will see some accountability for these lives in the future im not holding my breath were going to hope thank you so much for coming on today roy roy toppling over topping always a pleasure to have you on thank you. 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One of the media has on their not gotten them. We are in the season of giving our watchers so between now and Christmas Day mark my words you will see countless feel good stories on the local and National News about how individuals and groups are helping those less fortunate than themselves. And all those Good Samaritans are definitely worthy of praise and News Coverage a 1000000 kind acts for Television Cameras are not going to solve the problem of homelessness here in the United States and elsewhere around the world currently in just the u. S. Alone more than 550000 souls will go to sleep on any given day without a place to call home or have a roof over their head and while some cities try to solve their problem of homelessness through food and shelter programs other major u. S. Cities are instead closing the social services these people so vitally need the Atlanta Journal constitution recently reported that at least 18 almost people died from hypothermia since atlantas infamous homeless shelter known as peach tree pine officially closed in august of 2017 according to an internal city report meanwhile other cities are simply shifting their problems of homelessness off to their neighbors in fact the city of newark new jersey is now suing new york city for the big apples big policy of coursing their homeless shelter residents in the moving to various other cities across the country as part of their special one time assistance programs and dont even my friends dont even get me started on the numerous laws cities and states have been acted to make homelessness essentially illegal. Well joining us today to discuss some of the causes and solutions to the issue of homelessness both from Atlanta Georgia but also in the rest of the country is ties of troutman grad student with the Urban Studies Institute and with help with Health Students taking action together so we have a big who is the Program Director for st madison i want to thank you both for coming on today its an honor ave thank you. Thank you for having us on lets start with atlanta where you where you both reside ties or why did atlanta decide to close one of its biggest homeless shelters the peach tree pine and did up play a part in the recent hypothermia does this summer as summer setting. Yes so the closure of peach tree impact and homeless shelter live absolutely i think a cause of a lot of the hypothermia deaths that have been happening in pine was a shelter that pretty much didnt turn anyone away they didnt have a lot of barriers to entry and they had about 800 beds on any given night willing to except you know whoever needed who ever needed shelter on a cold night. I think that the city closed the shelter especially after years of spending millions of dollars actively seeking to shut it down because of the capitalist interest in the land i think the shelter sits in a pivotal place in midtown atlanta and the fact that its been bought by him or a hospital a private institution to sort of a way to turn around the neighborhood to make the neighborhood more palatable for Capital Investment are definitely driving factors as to why they want to displace the shelter so have your youre involved in you know youre involved in medicine youre your medical student what i want to ask you is what are the common maladies that were seeing in the homeless folks in atlanta and in the rest of the United States that could be fixed if we actually put the time and effort into truly take care of its people. Right thats a good question so partially what you want to mad. Is that a lot of the people who are living on the street are dealing with chronic medical conditions that require very close fall of the crop require very close medical management and so you can imagine how life on the street makes it difficult even for someone whos living in very stable housing they are confused by their medications at times it requires you know the help of a caregiver even sometimes and so you can imagine how life on the street could make that even worse you know whether its diabetes or hypertension that requires that close monitoring or even Something Like inhaling the irritants from a barrel fire in the winter to try to stay warm these are all some of the social determinants and physical determinants of the health of folks experiencing homelessness started in the city of atlanta or other cities like your close virtually all of the public homeless shelters it leaves it up to the private sector like nonprofits churches and even businesses to take responsibility for helping Homeless People is that a good thing does that actually help you know alleviate this problem in the long run. Absolutely not i think neoliberal management of any social Service Provision especially something so necessary as like outreach for Homeless Individuals and shelter for people without homes should not be handled by private entities is absolutely not more a fish and a more efficient way to get our resources i think it creates infighting between interests and sort of institutions to say you know we need a bigger chunk of funding to provide more services or to provide services for a very particular groups of people so for example instead of having one large or a few large shelters that do not have barriers to entry you get a lot of small splinter shelters scattered about the city specially in a place like atlanta where transportation is not easy to come by specially Public Transit so you can imagine just the. Getting people into shelters when they are scattered this way not to mention if this shelter only serves women or only serves mothers or only serves children or only serve single men you know losing somewhere like time they did not have these sort of barriers to entry are is just its an atrocity to a city like this and so i think when they do these things and they rely on the private sector. Edges it does a lot to not only impact the folks who need the services but also the people who sort of go out and do all hands on outreach on the streets its difficult to find folks to connect folks to the resources that they need and to continue to take care of people on a sort of continuous round the clock schedule. Perfectly frank you. I dont see how anyone could say like the blues things are in the long run helping the way by t