Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the re-element.

Hey guys, welcome back to the show. Saga and I are excited to return with our weekly discussion

episodes. Now that we are off our summer hiatus, this episode is really broad. It's in response

to a super cast. Listen to a question that typically would have been locked and for subscribers

only. We decided to open it up because the question deals directly with the wars in Iraq

and Afghanistan a fitting topic because we are going into the 21st anniversary of the

20s of the 911 attacks and of course the 1 year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the

US final withdrawal from Afghanistan. If you'd like to get access to more questions, submit

your own, get the rest of our bonus content and help shape the further direction of our show,

go to re-element.supercast.com. Once again, that's re-element.supercast.com. There's going

to be a bunch of different books and ideas referenced in this show. So I'm putting together

a special bookshop storefront.there will list all the books that we're going to mention.

Different ideas you want to get more into this topic. You could click the link in the show notes

on your podcast player or in the YouTube section. I'm also going to put out a substack that

really brings us all together tomorrow on Friday. So you should also go click that link to subscribe

there as well. That is a free product unlike the super cast. All the links, everything's really

necessary there and I hope you all enjoy this conversation. So this question directly relates

to a topic I was going to bring up today, which is 9-11. We're obviously going into the 21st

anniversary. It would obviously be the anniversary of Biden's pull out from the country, which

depending on your perspective, it was either a disaster or the right thing to do given the cost.

So here's the question and sogrets directed at me, but I want you to answer first.

Foreign policy disasters. Marshall commented in an episode that the invasions of Afghanistan and

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