Iraq, every mention
8 scenes (2022) · ← back to Iraq
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone Balaji Srinivasan 7Barbara Coloroso 4Stanley McChrystal 3Tyler Cowen 1Douglas Rushkoff 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Iraq comes up
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 3:23 Balaji Srinivasan I don't know, uh, but the last year I actually wrote an essay on this for Barry Weiss's blog, and, um, essentially what was surprising to me was that the reduction in state capacity was bipartisan in the U.S., and that is to say, like,…
- ▶ 39:33 Balaji Srinivasan Like from the, you know, the Afghanistan intelligence, the Iraq intelligence to lots of the early official misinformation on COVID.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Balaji Srinivasan WMD's in Iraq, that was a surprise.
- ▶ 1:48:44 Balaji Srinivasan I mean, was there, was there a pleb the people of Iraq vote for the invasion?
- ▶ 2:14:47 Balaji Srinivasan And many other countries, by the way, like don't necessarily trust the U.S. because, you know, after Iraq and other kinds of things, you could easily imagine the U.S. 3 times in the scene
#132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
- ▶ 28:35 Stanley McChrystal We would do military operations where you were going to conduct it, particularly in the counter-terrorist world in Iraq during the height of the fight, 2005 and six.
- ▶ 33:46 Stanley McChrystal In Iraq and Afghanistan, over every fight we could have at about 10,000 to 20,000 feet, full motion video.
- ▶ 1:09:09 Stanley McChrystal It really in, we were fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq in the tough years of the war, and rather than hate the Al Qaeda operatives because they were bloodthirsty and they would do horrible things, you had to step back and say, if I'd had their…