A history of failure in Afghanistan

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben explain why the Russian foreign minister is in Washington and why Vladimir Putin is in Paris, the media and political reaction to the Saudi flight student who murdered his classmates in Florida, updates out of North Korea, an exciting leadership change in Finland, and a troubling religious law in India. Then Afghanistan policy expert Jeff Eggers joins to talk about some extraordinary reporting by the Washington Post about the (somewhat) secret history of policy failures in Afghanistan, which is based on documents that the Post is comparing to The Pentagon Papers.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsayv the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.9	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:14.0	Ben, you're in Kuala Lumpur, some place I've never even thought about going.
0:17.6	What are you doing there?
0:18.9	Yeah, continuing my follow travel.
0:21.6	I'm here with our former boss, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
0:26.0	They are doing a program for their foundation with 200 young leaders from across the Asia-Pacific
0:32.0	region who will be here for a few days.
0:34.4	Obama will meet with them, Michelle, Obama will meet with them.
0:37.6	I will not that that's on the same level.
0:40.2	But basically it's trying to help young leaders in civil society and government and entrepreneurs
0:46.7	to network with each other to get better what they're doing so that hopefully the next generation
0:51.6	leadership does better than we have.
0:53.8	That's really cool.
0:54.8	That's an admirable program.
0:55.8	I'm glad you guys are doing that.
0:56.8	I didn't know you was doing that stuff.
0:58.2	It's an infusion of hope at a time when we need it.
1:00.9	Seriously, you may remember some of these town halls heated with young people when you
1:04.5	was president.
1:05.5	When you get in a room with a couple of hundred young people from countries that have huge
1:10.7	challenges, some worse than us for sure.
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