Buried Treasure: "The Longest War"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Greg Barker, the director of The Longest War Documentary, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on Skullduggery's "Buried Treasure." The group discuss all things Afghanistan. From the origins of our involvement with the country to the current state of a potential peace deal with the Taliban. A puzzle that has yet to be solved from President Carter on through to President Trump.

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0:00.0	Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan.
0:03.6	Afghanistan.
0:04.6	We're not going to repeat that.
0:05.6	America's longest war.
0:06.8	I could win that war in a week.
0:09.7	That hospital bombing was devastated.
0:12.9	A lot of innocent civilians per kill.
0:16.0	Every year there was this sense that if we did X, Y, and Z,
0:19.5	we'd go to the initial war.
0:21.2	You can see in their eyes the weariness and frustration
0:24.8	because it's in their country.
0:27.3	Seven American presidents from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump,
0:31.7	all talking about a conflict seemingly with no end.
0:36.0	It's the subject of the longest war, a new film about Afghanistan
0:39.8	that will premiere on Showtime Sunday night, April 19.
0:44.0	The film is a penetrating look at decades of death,
0:47.2	destruction, crushed dreams, and self-deception
0:51.2	that marked the American military presence in that country.
0:54.9	But with an uneasy piece deal now on the table,
0:57.7	will anything change?
0:59.3	We'll discuss with Greg Barker, the director of the longest war
1:03.6	on this episode of Buried Treasure.
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