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Critical moment. if the united states had said we are going to take this little group of people and maybe a few hundred to a few thousand allied troops and contractors and leave them there, then that would have posed the taliban with the question of whether to escalate. and i think we would have gotten trapped into a whole series of the kinds of dilemmas president obama faced in 2008, 2009 when the situation was moving in the wrong direction and we had to either escalate and surge or accept that we were on a trajectory to losing. so no, i really don't believe that there is some sort of minimal...

Some of them have been open for 19 hours. that was much longer than planned and an effort to boost voter turnout. now, besides dealing with domestic crises, iran's next president will help decide whether the 2015 nuclear deal can be revived. it is a position raisi is said to favor. the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible statecraft and the author of "losing an enemy: obama, iran, and the triumph diplomacy" joins me now from fairfax, virginia. good to see you. i'm curious. what does the leadership's decision to basically, you know, rig the candidate list basically t...

Have to engage. but engagement just for engagement's sake isn't good enough. you've got to have a strategy behind it. what is it that you want to accomplish? how do you want to accomplish it? president biden has said state craft, diplomacy. yes, we get all the other factors that are critical as well, trade, economics, our security, our intelligence, our defense. all those are part of it, but you have to have a plan, a program. and that strategy has to involve the interest of the other side. what's russia's interest? what's china's interest? what do they get out of the deal? it can't be one sid...

Watch Out Democratic India, Unhappier Days Are Just Around the Corner With the second wave of COVID-19 and the political shabbiness of the BJP in West Bengal exposing Narendra Modi's 'governance', chances are that citizens will have to brace themselves for more onslaughts on constitutional institutions. Home minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI There comes a time in the life of every regime when it loses its  iqbal, that elusive yet unique mix of moral wholesomeness, political nobility and administrative authoritativeness. A healthy quantum of  iqbal enable...

Citizens presumably. it is not the typically done. it is for state craft not for politics usually. >> all right. coming up, a candidate struggling to get support from black voters. reverend barber will join us when we come back. oi jn us when we come back. [ applause ] thank you. it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. i love you! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ non-gmo, made with naturally sundown vitamins are all