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speak about these luxuries. Welcome to Blowback. I'm Brendan James. I'm Noah Colin. And this is

season four episode nine Peace Walker.

Last episode we saw the Bush administration occupy Afghanistan.

Far more thrifty than their big government

Soviet predecessors.

The Americans paid off warlords, ex-Majahadine, and Taliban alike, handing

the country's development over to private companies and contractors.

Just as in Iraq, an insurgency wearing the colors of militant Islam struck back.

And by 2006, Taliban and ex-Muzajahadin were piling up their own bodies. In a suicide attack at Kabul Airport.

In 2008, Democratic candidate Barack Obama,

upon promising to end the war in Iraq,

also promised to inject new vigor into the war in Afghanistan.

In fact, as should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain,

the Central Front in the War on Terror is not Iraq and it never was and that's why the second goal of my new strategy will be taking the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

With the election of Obama, we will now see the carousel of Generals McKernan, Petraeus,

and McChrystal dispatched to the front.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

and her abrasive advisor, Richard Holbrook,

are on deck.

This team's job will be to sell, quote,

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