July 18, 2021 |ON GPS: Gen. David Petraeus tells Fareed why the U.S. might regret withdrawing from Afghanistan; will the anti-government protests change anything in Cuba?; and Gary Ginsburg on his new book “First Friends”

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 18 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As the U.S. finalizes its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of involvement in the country, Fareed talks to former Commander of U.S. Central Command and former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus about how the U.S. may regret the decision to pull out in a “hasty way.” Then, Ada Ferrer, Professor of History at NYU, explains why it is still too early to know if the anti-government protests in Cuba will bring about change and what President Biden should do about Cuba. Plus, Gary Ginsburg, author of the new book “First Friends,” tells Fareed about the defining friendships of different American presidents and how they shaped both their decision-making and personal lives. And lastly, after the shocking assassination of the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moishe, Fareed looks at the troubled history of the island nation and how it led to the current violence there. GUESTS: David Petraeus, Ada Ferrer, Gary Ginsburg To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States
0:07.0	and around the world. I'm Farid Zakari, coming to you live.
0:12.0	Today on the show, on my orders, the United States military has begun strikes in Afghanistan.
0:19.0	The President who got us into Afghanistan now says it's the wrong time to get out.
0:26.0	George W. Bush thinks the American withdrawal now close to complete is a mistake.
0:32.0	I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad.
0:36.0	Is Biden moving too many troops out too fast?
0:39.0	I will not send another generation of America's to war in Afghanistan.
0:44.0	I will ask General David Patreus, who once commanded US and Allied troops in Afghanistan.
0:50.0	Also, thousands of Cubans take to the streets marking the most significant unrest there in decades.
1:00.0	The price for freedom rang out as the demands for regime change.
1:06.0	Is that likely to happen after 60 years of cash flows and communists?
1:12.0	I'll ask an expert.
1:15.0	Then, surely you've heard of President Harry Truman, but what about Eddie Jacobson?
1:22.0	Everybody knows of Richard Nixon, of course, but do they know of BB Roboser?
1:27.0	These unsung characters were the closest confidence of the man in the Oval Office.
1:33.0	I'll talk to the author Gary Ginsburg about his terrific new book, First Friends.
1:42.0	But first, here's my take.
1:45.0	We're now a year and a half into the pandemic, which is enough time to start looking back and drawing real lessons.
1:52.0	Especially when comparing it to the last grade joke to the international system, the global financial crisis.
1:59.0	Did we learn any lessons from 2008?
2:02.0	Have we handled this one any better?
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