I hate modern-day historians!  Most of them have been taught, or are teaching history that has been rewritten by woke historians.  I sympathize with the idea that many Afghan's do not support the Taliban or any of the "terrorist" groups in their country.  But to the Americans, who suffered a devastating loss of civilian life by people who were trained within the borders of Afghanistan, that's just not going to suffice.  What are we to think or do?  Every person like the one on this podcast thinks going to war in Afghanistan was a mistake, offers absolutely no answer to what response the US should have had after 911.   The terrorists were not Afghan, and they were funded by multiple countries in the ME including Saudi.  But they were trained and operated in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The US government asked many times for the government of Afghanistan (Taliban) to cooperate in the investigation of the incident and turn over those who were responsible for the planning of the attack and they refused.  So what would this "Historian" have us do?  Write a strongly worded letter to the UN, and then the UN could write a strongly worded letter condemning the attack?  Then do absolutely nothing?  Talking about how good Muslims or the everyday Afghan is, is just simply trying to use emotion to manipulate the argument.  When WW2 was ongoing and we were killing Germans, Japanese and Italians do you not think there were really good Germans, Japanese or Italian people?  To say we should not go to war with a country just because some of the people that live there are good people is just ridiculous.  Historians like this are dangerous because they push anti-war / isolationist views.  Even if we were directly invaded, they would blame it on the US's foreign policy history as a way of justifying it and would decry any action we took to retaliate.  I am not going to sugarcoat my opinion here.  This guy is garbage!  He didn't even answer Lex's question about what we should have done, he just continues to say how much a mistake it was for us to take action.  This is because he doesn't want to admit that he thinks we deserved to be attacked and the lives lost should have been just chalked up to that.,(reply>), I think the issue comes with what was solved by US military intervention?<br>Did the US stop the Taliban? No, they took the capital before the US was out.<br>Did the US stop terrorist cells within Afghanistan? No, now ISIS and other foreign fighters are active there.<br>It’s clear as day that it was bad for the US and for Afghans. Also, it is unfair to dehumanize the suffering of the Afghan people as an “emotional manipulation” bc the average Afghan is innocent and has lost much more than anyone else. All for the US to leave it unsolved and give Afghanistan to the Taliban.<br>If you are looking for a plausible solution it can be one of that like South Korea, to help economically and build some sort of structure after wreaking havoc there for 20 years.<br>It’s a much more complicated topic than people make it out to be. <br>Hope that helps.