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History. the sanctions on iraq followed a bombing campaign that destroyed their infrastructure. david, this is something that you have spent a lot of time thinking about and writing about. you were involved with your colleague advising you on the regimes in iraq, smart sanctions. what do you think of the current sanctions regime in iran and why are they so crippling? what are we doing with iran? >> there are two dimensions of sanctions. they are targeted measures that begain five or six years ago. they are targeted, asset freezes, travel bans, arms embargo. there is 100 individuals and entitie...

Hear, but it's true anyway. hundreds of people are getting killed in syria every day. we're up to almost 30,000 people killed, mostly civilians. the country is imploding, it's destabilizing lebanon, threatening turkey, jordan, iraq. more and more militants are coming in who are not syrians who are taking over what was originally a much more pluralist liberal opposition. people are predicting up to a ten-year civil war. this is a humanitarian disaster. it is horrific morally and devastating to us strategically. we should -- the united states should act with the countries in the region to create...

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>> there is no plan for ending the war in afghanistan. the president says we'll be out by -- biden says yes for sure. they're planning to keep lots of troops there. the more important thing is how are we actually going to end the war in such a manner to prevent the killing from continuing? how do we work with the people of afghanistan so get a more accountable representative government that isn't just warlords and isn't taken over by the taliban? we need to be engaged in after stand in a substantive way. we need a plan for ending the war and building a better more accountable government. dav...