The Jackpod: Casualties of war
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the causes and consequences of the U.S.’s decade-long war with ISIS and its impact on American democracy.
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| 0:55.5 | I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie, |
| 1:02.2 | helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello there, Jack, and happy new year to you. |
| 1:07.0 | Happy New Year to you. |
| 1:14.3 | Okay, so let's get Jackpot 2025 off to a strong start. We're at episode 62. What's your headline? Casualties of war. Casualties of which war, Jack? Well, I want to quote General Russell |
| 1:23.4 | Honoré, who was interviewed on CNN. He was the general who oversaw the distribution of federal |
| 1:32.8 | aid to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He was talking about the atrocity there. |
| 1:40.1 | And he said, quote, the United States is at war with ISIS. |
| 1:45.7 | And the Americans who were killed in the warlands in the first hours of this year, |
| 1:51.2 | they were casualties of that war. |
| 1:55.4 | Through the last year, the United States made 200 separate attacks on ISIS bases, personnel and so on, |
| 2:06.8 | scattered in eastern Syria. |
| 2:11.9 | And that followed on a longer period of really since 2014, we have been consistently at war with ISIS. |
| 2:26.3 | And ISIS, while it can't, it has not struck directly at the United States. |
| 2:33.2 | It's not thought to have that capability as Al-Qaeda, |
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