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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

17 Years in Afghanistan....What Have We Accomplished?

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Next month we mark 17 years since the US invasion of Afghanistan, certainly the longest single military effort in US history. Our original...

Monday, April 24, 2017

The Afgan war is far from over

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It's been sixteen years since the beginning of the post 9/11 US war in Afghanistan. A nation that has often been referred to as the ...

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

From Kabul to the Oval Office

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is often quoted as saying that “you can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.” This is as true in looking ...

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Why do we always get it wrong?

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Forty plus years ago, in Vietnam, we saw how the best and the brightest could ignore history, ignore truths and facts and conduct one of o...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Fog of 10 Years of War

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All the talk about drones lately seems to miss the larger point. What compels us, what disturbs us, is the sanitized way in which we conduc...

Monday, July 9, 2012

The war within the war for Afghanistan

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There is an old saying that goes, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." When we look at US foreign and mili...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Understanding Afghanistan & why it matters

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It has been said that Afghanistan has been the graveyard of empires. Certainly, in modern times, the Soviet Union paid a heavy price for it’...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Wrong War

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The war in Afghanistan is now America's longest war. The 2014 completion of mission still remains years into the future. Yet after all ...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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