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Trillion. the bush administration failed to ending the war early on is one of the many gross mistakes that they made, including allowing osama bin laden to escape afghanistan. according to a senate report from 2009, bin laden was, quote, within our grasp in december 2001, but the administration let him slip through their hands. quoting from the report, the decisions that opened the door for his escape to pakistan allowed bin laden to emerge as a potent symbolic figure who continues to attract a steady flow of money and inspires fanatics worldwide. the failure to finish the job represents a los...

Giving up its weapons, the secretary of defense immediately objected to portions of the deal, that would allow the taliban to remain in kandahar, to live in dignity in opposition as long as he renounced terrorism. the reality is that this could've been ended almost as soon as it started but the bush administration, not just in december 2001, but repeatedly over the years turned out opportunity for negotiating an end to the war in here we are 20 years later. >> i'm not sure it's fair to say that the bush administration could've ended the war if only the accepted the surrender of kandahar, but l...

To the senate foreign relations committee and the house intelligence committee. he joins me now. jameel, thanks for coming on the show tonight. on december 7th, 2001 "the new york times" reported afghan's taliban militia agreed to surrender its last remaining stronghold and would begin giving up its weapons but secretary of defense donald rumsfeld objected to portions of the deal that would allow the taliban leader to remain in kandahar to live so long as he renounced terrorism. the reality is this could have been ended almost as soon as it started but the bush administration not just in decem...

Ammunition and combat aircraft. so we all agree it's bad right now. but did you know there was a good chance we could have maybe avoided all of this? that's because in december 2001 the taliban seemed to be on the verge of striking a deal with the afghan government to surrender. this was when they said they were finished but donald rumsfeld rejected the idea. when asked about the possibility of such a deal said, quote, the answer is no. he wanted an unconditional surrender. how did that work out? just to be clear, no one is saying that afghanistan would have become peaceful or violence-free, o...

Health policy, just who could get a covid booster shot and when. plus the latest push for congress to save voting rights even though the senate keeps killing the bill. top house democrats hakeem jeffries joins me to discuss that when all in starts right now. >> good evening from washington d.c. i'm mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. no matter whether you are for or against the war in afghanistan, i think those observers will agree that the way it's been brought to an and has been a disaster. the taliban is again in control of the country, and in addition to political power, they have their hands...