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Afghanistan shortly after september 11th 2001. it's a mission that brought osama bin laden to adjust and, along with many of his al-qaeda coconspirators. and it was not a cheap mission. the cost was 2461 u.s. service members, and civilians killed. and more than 20,000 were injured. sadly, that includes 13 u.s. service members who were killed last week by an isis k suicide bomber. we honor their sacrifice today, as we remember their heroic accomplishments. no words for me could possibly capture a full measure of sacrifices and accomplishments of those who served. nor the emotions they're feelin...

Of afghanistan's military and police, 51,191 members of the taliban and other opposition fighters, 47,245 afghan civilians including children and babies. 1,144 allied service members including from nato member states. 444 aid workers. and 72 journalists. the number of civilian deaths could be much larger, but that is the official number, 47,245. you can call the 20-year war america's longest war only if you are willing to overlook the 300 years of war waged against the people who were found on this continent when the europeans arrived. america's genocidal war against nato tribes did not offici...

Fighters at 51,191 and afghan civilians at 47,245. the number of civilian deaths could be much larger. tonight there are some american commentators on the war in afghanistan who were saying we just didn't kill enough people. they were saying we should stay longer and kill as many people as it takes to control afghanistan and presumably control it forever. most americans were not yet born the first time the united states lost a foreign war and fled that country leaving behind thousands of people who helped the united states try to win a war that was always impossible to win. 56% of americans we...

But what we can, do we must do, and that's not a problem that we need to have regret about, in ruin wish we'd done. that actually is a task for doing right now. >> i completely agree. what we can do, we must, do it we will find out in the next few weeks. what we can do. >> yes exactly. >> thank you rachel. >> welcome back lawrence, thanks. >> thank you. here is a measure, in just one measure, of the human cost, of america's 20 years of war in afghanistan. and this is expressed only, in lives lost. not lives ruined, not physical injuries, not any of the other horrors of war. just, the death cou...

Cost of america's 20 years of war in afghanistan and this is expressed only in lives lost, not lives ruined, not physical injuries, not any of the other horrors of war, just the death count, the brutal death count. afghan national military and police, 66,000. taliban and other opposition fighters, 51,191. afghan civilians, 47,245. that, of course, is just an estimate. u.s. contractors, 3,846. american military 2,448. allied service members including from nato member states, 1,144. aid workers 444, journalists 72. the two least accurate numbers in that count probably are taliban and other oppos...