772 - General Stanley McChrystal (Part 2): What were US's risks after the withdrawal from Afghanistan

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In Part 1 of the episode, General Stanley McChrystal talked about how he manages risks during his time as United States Army General, and how he uses the techniques that he had learned during then in Businesses. And of course, natural, the topic about the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan came up, and we get to talk about what happened with Iraq, Afghanistan, China. and Russia through his perspective, and also what were US's risks when we withdrew from Afghanistan. Listen to this Part 2 out of 2, and make sure you check out Part 1 if you missed it! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:07.3	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:13.3	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.3	So if you just listen to part one, you know this is General Stanley McChrystal.
0:20.3	He wrote a book called Risk, a User's Guide.
0:22.2	He talks all about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq.
0:26.1	Now in this part of the episode, part two, we're going to talk specifically about what is going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, China, and what are the risks the US base is going forward.
0:39.1	So what risks do you think we did not take into account in Afghanistan where, a, you know, 20 years later, we were still there, you know, 19 years later, we were still there.
1:00.5	And now, you know, there's this additional risk where we always, you know, three presidents in a row, we were always saying we will pull out quickly.
1:09.1	Now we pulled out quickly and somehow we took, we took a risk, we took a huge risk that somehow didn't really work out.
1:15.7	What what happened? What's happening?
1:18.4	If you go back and you look at our interaction with Afghanistan, we'll call it from 1989 when the Soviets were leaving.
1:27.7	We had supported the Mujahideen and the Mujahideen, we're going to finish off the remnants of the Afghan government that the Soviet supported.
1:36.9	We turned away. We said, okay, our business here is done and we turned away.
1:42.0	And we say, okay, well, we did our thing to defeat the Russians.
1:46.5	We incurred risk then because by walking away, we lost leverage with what was happening in Afghanistan.
1:53.4	Now you could argue, we didn't want leverage, but we didn't get leverage.
1:58.0	And so the Afghan state went into civil war and then the Taliban came in until 2001, we had this chaotic civil war going on.
2:07.4	And 90% of the country run by a pretty austere fundamental group of guys.
2:13.1	So we get a risk in the region and that risk manifests itself by them letting Al Qaeda in.
2:18.3	Then we're posed with a whole new challenge. You've got Al Qaeda inside Afghanistan from which the non-elevenant attacks are planned.
2:26.3	The risk is if you leave them, if you leave Al Qaeda, they are in a place and you got a problem.
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