So another long form podcast from the Armstrong and Getty show. If you don't know who we are, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty

We do a radio show all up and down the west coast big cities

But we we've had a lot of guests on our radio show over the years. We thought geez we could talk to you for an hour

So we thought we'd start doing that with some of our guests. Mm-hmm

And what a pleasure it is to have another conversation with Laura Logan a

Legendary foreign correspondent chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS news longtime correspondent for CBS is

60 minutes and and and not only a great reporter, but a a thinker and observer of human beings around the globe

Laura Logan here's a couple of things have happened just in the last couple of days in Afghanistan

Suicide attacks a midwife training center a

Refugee assistance office a cricket match a convoy of seeking Hindu leaders a customs building an

Elementary school a ceasefire celebration and a crowded prayer service at a Shiite mosque in addition to an attack on a military base

That creak killed three foreign soldiers and injured in American all those just in the last couple of days

That's not what we are hoping for when we went into Afghanistan

17 years ago. Yeah, oh true. So where are we?

Well, we're at the point of surrender basically if you that's what you know the Afghan

People that I know and have known for a very long time Afghan lawyers

Americans Afghans on the ground there they

Right now the US is engaged in peace talks with the Taliban

We have given up on precondition from the very beginning from 9 11 the preconditions where that the Taliban had to embrace the Afghan

Constitution they had to denounce violence and they had to

renounce any

Affiliation or affinity to al-Qaeda or their ideology so we've given up on all of that we've thrown that out the window

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