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Michael: The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a net negative for US
“The second war in Iraq and the Afghanistan war, and there were long, expensive conflicts where the benefit to the United States, looking back on it, was negative. It wasn't even neutral, right? It cost a lot of people their lives, and Afghanistan is still, Afg…”
Hays: Taliban Members Are Trading Meme Coins
“No, I also saw that the Taliban have been trading meme coins.”
Maguire: Iran supplied munitions to Russia and backed the Taliban
“When Russia invaded Ukraine for the first year or so, a lot of the munitions were coming from Iran, and anyways, it's, you know, when America was fighting in Afghanistan, Iran was, like, deeply supporting the Taliban.”
Shahid: Taliban gained initial support promising social change, not school bans
“This group had come in, like most
Terrorist groups saying, your community has suffered injustice.
We're going to solve real social challenges in the way of Allah, right?
Give us your gold and stand with us.
So they didn't come in saying, we're going to blow up…”
Esper: U.S. should not have fully withdrawn from Afghanistan without Taliban compliance
“That's why I was opposed to a complete withdrawal of our force from Afghanistan up until the, until the Taliban met their end of the political agreement, and if they weren't, then we should have stayed and maintained a presence and supported the Afghan army.”