From Washington: The Chaotic Close Of The Longest War In History

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🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The longest war in American history has come to an end this week after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan as American troops evacuated the region. FOX News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot has followed the war on terror from overseas and weighs in on how far we've come and what threats still face us as we leave after twenty years. In several states across the country, there are lawsuits playing out over mask mandates and mandatory vaccines for students and educators. South Texas College of Law Houston Professor Joshua Blackman is an expert on Constitutional Law and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Professor Blackman explains the constitutionality of these mandates and whether either party has a case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Saturday, September 4th, 2021. I'm Rachel Sutherland.
0:35.0	Painful Memories of 9-11 with the chaotic close of the longest war in U.S. history.
0:41.0	We were there from the very beginning, there throughout this long 20-year war with various military
0:46.3	embedments, and there at the end where we were in Afghanistan a month ago watching as the
0:51.6	Taliban was closing in.
0:52.8	You've probably heard of typhoid Mary, but have you heard her story?
0:56.4	What her case tells us about the power of the government to protect public health?
1:00.8	If we can put you in jail for a quarter century for having some sort of disease, isn't it a far
1:06.3	lesser intrusion on your freedom to put a needle in your arm?
1:10.1	And that's an argument that the courts have actually raised.
1:12.3	This is the Fox News rundown, from Washington. Was a war in Afghanistan worth it? As the 20th anniversary of 9-11 approaches,
1:30.0	former Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson says yes.
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