Is Afghanistan A Lost Cause?

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🗓️ 18 November 2010

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After nearly a decade of fighting, Americans are still debating the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, its toll on the military and its financial cost. A team of experts goes head-to-head on the topic in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	True or false, Afghanistan is a lost cause.
0:05.6	That's what we are here to debate.
0:07.2	Welcome everyone, I'm John Donovan of ABC News
0:09.4	and on behalf of Intelligence Squared US.
0:11.8	Welcome to the Skurball Center for the Performing Arts
0:13.9	at New York University and on NPR stations
0:16.8	across the nation.
0:18.2	As we argue this motion, Afghanistan is a lost cause.
0:21.4	We have two teams of debaters, two against two.
0:24.2	They include a journalist who has spent time
0:26.1	among the Taliban and come back to tell the tale,
0:28.5	a State Department official who walked away
0:30.4	from his job in Afghanistan in frustration,
0:32.8	a journalist who sat down and talked with Osama bin Laden
0:36.7	in the 90s and a military historian.
0:40.0	Now this is a debate.
0:41.7	It's a contest of ideas, a verbal joust.
0:45.2	And in this debate, you, our audience, serve as the judges.
0:50.1	By the time this debate has ended,
0:51.4	you will have been asked to vote twice once before
0:54.1	and once again at the end of the debate
0:56.7	and the team that has changed the most minds
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