We as Americans didn't really pay attention to Afghanistan for a long time

And I think part of the reason is because we are

trained in some way to think about the war of goddess on orrocks when something really goes awry

When there's a major massacre when there's a war crime that's committed in fact most of the war of goddess on it wasn't war crimes

Hello and welcome to the 200th episode of Wise This Happening with me your host Chris Hayes

It is very hard to believe that we have published 200 episodes that we've been doing this for over three years now

And I have to say you know this podcast started a bit on a lark kind of side project a way of scratching a certain kind of intellectual

Itch that had been developing over time and ability to kind of read deeply on topics engage deeply on topics

And I've just learned so much it's been such a delight for me for the last three years

There's so much more that I know now so many

Topics that come up in the news that I think to myself all right like I have my bearings on that at least a little bit because we did a with that on it

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We've talked a number of times on the show about Afghanistan and if you'll indulge a little bit of a media critique from someone in the media for a second

There's something kind of maddening about the coverage of Afghanistan, which is that

And I'm gonna implicate myself here because I surely have not covered it as much as I probably should have over these years

But basically the war ground on in the background for 20 years it very rarely made the front pages

There were incredible reporters who were there for all the major newspapers and the native wire services and I like doing amazing work

So it wasn't that there weren't journalists doing the work there were

But in terms of like the emphasis of TV news cable news network news the news cycle

It tended to be pretty remote from American discussion of politics. It was a huge source of frustration to

Veterans of the war

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