September 18 - America's Lost Decade; The End of the Euro?; The Gloves Are Off With The U.S. And Pakistan

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Part 1	We begin with “America’s Lost Decade” the title of an article by our first guest Jonathan Alter. He is an analyst for NBC news and a columnist for Bloomberg View and we discuss the lost decade that was just observed with the anniversary of 9/11 and try to assess whether in the next election, the electorate will recognize the damage done to this country by the Bush decade.
Part 2	Then we look into the possibility of an unraveling of the Eurozone following the unsuccessful and inconclusive meeting of the U.S. Treasury Secretary and the European Finance Ministers. William Black an expert on bank fraud, just back from Europe, joins us to examine the irony that although it is really the German banks that are being bailed out, German voters do not want to bail out Greece, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected floating Eurobonds.
Part 3	Then finally we get an update on Afghanistan and Pakistan following the latest brazen Taliban attack in Kabul where the city was held hostage for over a day by a group from the Haqqani network that, according the US Ambassador in Pakistan, is protected by Pakistan’s military intelligence service the ISI. Christine Fair, who was a political officer for the UN in Kabul and is a Senior Fellow with the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point joins us.