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And he rose to the highest ranks not only in the military, but also areas of foreign policy and state craft. >> from powell's heritage to his storied military career before becoming a public servant, he paved the way for so many. like secretary of defense. >> the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed. alma lost a great husband and the family lost a tremendous father. i lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. >> reflecting on his career, powell told wolf blitzer that making the case that iraq had weapons of mass destruction was one of his biggest mistakes. >> ...

From qatar to albania to here, in the united states. all hoping to find somewhere to rebuild their lives in safety. and so, here we stand. a new chapter for afghanistan. a new chapter for us. it is a fact that ending this war required a level of resolve that no one had, prior to president joe biden. it required standing up to the vast establishment consensus in confronting the fekleness of american opinion. joe biden has done that. the actual evacuation of all u.s. troops has finally happened. and while there is very little joy to find in any of this long, painful story, the actual end of this...

Security expert and distinguished physical low at the quincy institute for responsible state craft and back with us is david. i was listening to the secretary of state today. and i was thinking back to what the secretary of state henry kissinger had to say when we left vietnam. we just have these two multidecade wars that we were driven out of in defeat to compare to each other. and henry kissinger and the american government had absolutely no plan about how to deal with vietnam in any way and have any communication with them about anything after we fled that country. and, so, what we are seei...

In war in afghanistan and has poured $145 billion into the effort. supporting the afghan government, training security forces, building infrastructure. now the watchdog agency, the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction, has been analyzing all of this for years, really, and the latest report dissects the failures in state craft and nation-building that led to the taliban takeover of afghanistan. now the nonprofit journalism organization propublica has been tracking how the u.s. has spent money on trying to build democracy in the country and also found billions of wasted dollars. m...

President obama faced in 2008, 2009, when the situation was moving in the wrong direction and we had to either escalate and search or accept that we were on a trajectory of losing. no, i really don't believe that there is some sort of minimal, warm making that you can do, and for a lot of the reasons that you are bringing up which is war is the fundamental choice of state craft. that something the u.s. military troops are taught that war is a different kind of act of state from other acts of states. when you start treating it at this little paintbrush that you can go around the world and dab i...