This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good friend Bill Raggio, the Foundation for the Defense of democracies,

keeps the Long War Journal.

More than two decades, two and a half decades, on Afghanistan. We discuss a New York Times revelation of very lengthy

very well-done detailed report about the police chief of Kandahar, Abdel Razik, now deceased, assassinated

by the Taliban is the assumption in 2018.

But while he was in charge of the police, he was brutal, sadistic, and accused of all kinds

of disappearances and murders. Families have never known what happened to their loved ones.

The revelations are constant.

So is the fact that the U.S. and the military and the State Department and NATO and everybody working in the Kandahar region

had reason to not only suspect but conclude that Rosique was a rogue. And yet Bill poses the question in an Afghanistan war, which right now looking

back was a failure by the U.S.

Bill Rajo, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

on Abdul Razik, a cutthroat? It looks that way. More later.

There was a lot of questions about, and you know, looking, sitting here in the United States, you knew that Rasek was did not have clean hands.

There's certain bin to State Department reporting about Rasek and human rights

violations and NGOs you, complained about him.

There were complaints to the government of, in Kanda Har to the governor and whatnot

and local police as well.

The, any US officer had to have an understanding

that that Raseek was not a clean player that he very

likely was doing things that they would not approve of and you know they're in I fear some of them won't be honest about it because they don't want to be

implicated in potential human rights violations or war crimes I know this this is gets to the real problem John of you know you go to a place like

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