60 Words

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace.

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0:00.0	It's Chad. So with the events of the last couple of days, by that, I mean, of course, the administration's decision to order a drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, which has unleashed a chain of events that leads we have no idea where. With that
0:21.9	happening, we wanted to play an episode, which I think really puts this situation in a much
0:28.3	larger context. We first broadcast this in April of 2014. I'm going to play it for you as we
0:33.9	originally put it out. And then on the back back end we'll talk a little bit about how this
0:39.8	all relates to the current situation that's unfolding again this was originally broadcast in
0:46.2	2014 but it it seems to really speak to what's happening right now wait you're listening
0:52.9	okay okay speak to what's happening right now. Wait, you're listening. Okay.
0:54.8	All right.
0:56.0	Okay.
0:57.5	All right.
1:00.7	You're listening to Radio Lab.
1:02.0	Radio Lab. From W. N. Y.
1:04.0	C.
1:04.9	See?
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:07.8	Okay. Ready? Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.
1:09.8	I'm Robert Crilwich. I'm Robert Krollwitch.
1:11.0	And this is Radio Lab.
1:11.9	Today we've got a story about the crazy power of words.
1:15.6	In particular, 60 words.
1:17.1	Single sentence.
1:17.9	That it is, well, it has, you could say, defined America for the last 12 years.
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