November 18 - Israel and Hamas in the Grip of War; Afghanistan From the Beginning to What End; It's the Footprint Stupid!

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Then we go to Northern Afghanistan to speak with author and journalist Robert Young Pelton who has covered the 11 year-long war from the beginning. He filmed the original deployment of Special Forces and the Taliban prisoner breakout in which a CIA officer was killed and the American Taliban John Walker Lindh was captured. We get a perspective on what U.S. presence will remain after 2014 as the remaining troops and contractors build a series of permanent “Fort Apaches” in this hostile and increasingly lawless land.

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Then finally we hear from Graham Fuller a former CIA Kabul station chief who was the Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. We continue the discussion on Afghanistan and look into the current soap opera surrounding the scandal-plagued former head of the CIA whose testimony made fools out of Republican leaders like John McCain and Fox News who have been grandstanding and beating the drum on Benghazi for months trying to turn a minor tragedy into a major issue.