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>> jonathan who has covered afghanistan since 1981 talks about the soviet experience in that country from the lesson is the obama administration learned from it. it's hosted by the center for international policy. >> skycam at the center for international policies and we welcome jonathan steele and all of you and in particular his wife and i was in afghanistan in august with edward over here and i was stunned by the security in kabul. anybody have one point the british consoles have a six hour fire fight and we are sitting in power in our bunker in our hotel my colleagues had been na...

anybody have one. , the british consul to, a six hour firefight, sitting in our bunker in our hotel , a colleague who had just been narrowly missed being hit by stray bullets. i want to talk to these guys, writing about the security advances in afghanistan and trouble. it is a had been more less out of the fight. ahead in reading your book. it is phenomenally good. by far the best book ever read in afghanistan. we welcome you here and look forward to getting a questions. >> but i want to do is give a little bit of a flavor of what was like. one of the main themes of the book is the c...

Perpetuating a conflict that, as i said, two-thirds of the soldiers in it, say they're there simply to keep themselves alive. if that's not a reason to get money out, i don't know what is. maybe then we can get out of afghanistan. our specialist today says that as the u.s. tries to exit afghanistan, although i'm not certain what that effort is at this point, there are more important lessons from the soviet union's experience in the 1980s that the u.s. must learn jonathan steel has been cering afghanistan for 30 years, mostnd haunted battleground," the cover before you. jonathan, the soviets we...

Yes, let's talk. i mean, the u.s. administration. and then there are other forces that are saying, no, no, we can degrade the taliban, kick them in the face, knock them down a little bit, and then we can negotiate from a position of strength. but your strength will never be stronger than it is now. it's declining all the time. >> jonathan, we appreciate your candor and your willingness to speak very directly with us on a subject that is central, really, to the integrity of our nation and, obviously, our foreign policy and our identity, let alone our respect for our own soldiers and our own nat...

you. it is wonderful to be seeing you from washington, d.c. i have never been so happy to come the to this town in my entire life, as i was this morning. and as you can see behind me, we are live in washington, d.c., our nation's capital, for the very specific reason to begin a direct conversation with our legislators to get money out and get jobs in. more than 140,000 of us are standing together on the single issue, get money out of our political system and end the auction democracy. we got news this morning, and it was no surprise, on the other side of the ledger, the job crisis in...