and after an initial claim, by one of its commanders, the group ended a cease fire in november and violence has been on the vice since we remind you of our top story at best, our brushing force is in east and ukraine have gained ground close to battle the most in that continuing offensive that destroyed pots of 16 cave is pressuring its allies for fighter jets president finance coupons that russia is preparing for a major escalation. next, on bad b, w. a documentary on the effect of the war, enough garnished on returning that us veterans to sarah kelly, will have more of the top of the leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece and the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting?

then perhaps we just don't understand. the search for answers starts february 10th on d, w. ah ah no not a major decision with clear eyes. i will not send another generation america to war in afghanistan. when america withdrew its troops from its longest overseas war in afghanistan, the country was left in chaos. so this whole area is under taliban control. our administration is fully functional. each and every department is working well. biology oh, we were completely 100 percent lost when it came to the politics of the fight who we were actually fighting. and then what the end game was on the war on

terra's impact can still be found in america. 10 percent of the people who rested from violence criminal activity at the u. s. capital has either current or former military experience. ah ah ah ah

ah. i was born on the bomb, has it on many people with right now with on september, the 11th 2001 al qaeda attack the twin towers in new york. in response, george w bush started the operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. the search is

underway for those who are behind these evil acts. i've directed the for resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those respond symbol and to bring them to justice. osama bin laden was hunted and eventually killed in an operation led by the u. s. over time the us added objectives like nation building to its plans for afghanistan. but the taliban are experts at guerrilla warfare. they continue to operate from the country's south and impeded progress as with gold in the crossfire was afghanistan civilian population. more than $100000.00 people were killed either by us bombing campaigns or by taliban revenge attacks

of a kid that off early that with in 2020, with more than one trillion dollars spent, the u. s. decided to seek a political solution with afghanistan. then president donald trump signed a peace deal with the taliban for a transfer of power. his successor, president joe biden upheld the decision to withdraw us troops are made. the decision was clear. ours, after 20 years, a trillion dollars spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of afghan as security in defense forces. i will not send another generation america to war in afghanistan with no reasonable expectation. achieving the different outcome.

in july 2021, the center of us millet opperation in bank graham was swiftly evacuated. afghanistan's national army founded south put to the test. after 2 decades. it would now have to defend the country by itself. and it lacked proper training and how to counter guerilla warfare without us as support. emboldened the taliban launched a $75000.00 strong offensive across the country. the african army quickly faltered. many units surrendered without a fight. so this whole area is under taliban control. our administration is fully functional each and every department is working well. according to summer ponds,

a large number of the 600000 american weapons, 75000 vehicles, and 200 airplanes fell into taliban. the collapse, deeply shocked american war veterans who had served in afghanistan, keeping with american traditions the afghans would give us little scope as we left . and so this was from 2009. this jason dempsey is a former army major who served in afghanistan for nearly 2 years. during his 2009 deployment, he fought the taliban in kuna. vardek caused and packed the provinces in eastern afghanistan, the piano span in 2009. we were very good at targeting hunting and killing, but we were completely 100 percent lost when it came to the politics of the fight who we were actually fighting. and then what the end game was, there's

a lot of morphing between well, is the priority to or is our new enemy? is our sworn forever enemy? now the taliban, we just pain them all with one broad brush. they were the enemy. those easiest thing to do and then count to success as taking the fight to them without ever thinking about well, why do they keep coming? well the most, i ha, during his 2nd talk, jason dempsey wasn't adviser to the afghan military. his job was to train them to fight against the taliban. bought the 6 call of the afghan army, none but fewer than $300000.00 soldiers in total. and they were spread across a vast expanse. they received, you asked support in the form of an power and intelligence.

one of the biggest mistakes we made is we said, well, we're going to create an army, looks like us. and what we're doing was we're creating a national army for a nation that simply didn't exist. there are a lot of things that make our army effective, impossible things like effective bureaucracies, the rule of law, black to sectarian violence literacy, a force that's able to adapt and learn and use a lot of different technologies. those things don't exist in afghanistan. the fight against the taliban exposed the chronic corruption and mismanagement of then president ashur, i've gone his government right more than $300000000.00 per year, went to paying salaries of afghan security for staff members who didn't exist. in fact, according to one investigation afghan truitt numbers were as low as 50000 when the

taliban took cobble. currently, afghanistan is one of the 10 most corrupt countries in the world. we blame the afghans for, you know, siphoning off money and acting corrupt. and it's a bit of arrogance, a thing that we in the exact same situation wouldn't say the same thing that you don't just get at people, people everywhere. that's, you know, that was a one time part of our understanding of american exceptionalism. now american exceptionalism has as fantasy that somehow we have a perfect life. we can export that to everybody just by dictate and not actually the hard work, ah low morale, coupled with the abrupt withdrawal of us supportive like to widespread desertion within the afghan army.

with the taliban will also quake to use diplomacy and struck deals with afghan military commanders knows. one of the hardest things about fighting the taliban is, you know, they were people's brothers cousins, uncles, you know, distant relatives, people who shared the same background and ethnicity and when we turned them into the enemy, right? that not the enemy to negotiate with or work with or try to bring in the phone. but the enemy that must be decisively defeated. you know, we bought ourselves a really long war when we kind of made that our focus

as you as contract as withdrew the afghan army last for logistical support i had provided. and as american troops laughed, the african air force found itself with no reliable mechanism in place to stay at the bottom. i thought the taliban, on the other hand, had the advantage of experience. their advance across the country was both tactical and measured within days. more than 80 percent of the country's highways were under their control. cutting off the afghan army supply routes built this thing that simply cannot exist without us pouring billions of dollars. and having folks standing behind and supporting them with maintenance and contracting, and logistical, and air support and air power, we feel a complete fantasy of the military for us in the conundrum was so

long as were there long as report in millions hours and of that it directly under cut in many ways the political legitimacy of the central government and the forces out fighting because they were seen as both puppets. and there were seen as wildly corrupt. exactly 20 years after 911 the taliban, one full control over afghanistan. currently, the future of the country is unknown. over in america, the after effects of the war will continue to haunt veterans for us to come on some $7000.00 us military service members were killed in battle in iraq and afghanistan. these wars may have come to an end, but their human cost continues even with troops back home in the us. those

who survived the war and now battling on another front in more than 30000 on terra veterans, have taken their own lives around 4 times as many as died in iraq and afghanistan. now it's a suicide pandemic. that is devastated veteran families and communities. ah, thomas ben suit is contributing all for for the costs of war project. he started suicide rates among savvy members, and veterans of the post 911 was mm mm to sir said numbers are, are 2nd, serv ranges from 60026400 veterans every year and i buy suicide. that's where you get this. and they would say 17 per day. unfortunately, moral injury feelings of burdensome nest to society. issues

like taking on vice behaviors like drinking drug use, dangerous behaviors, all of these things can contribute to rising suicide rates. by 2030 veterans suicide will account for more than $221000000000.00 in public costs. 42 percent voting of because i know that we're in war and you come back to that you sacrifice to live near identity to protect these people. they don't know they did that sacrifice at all. they don't honor that sacrifice crates, you know, since isolation, elimination the year to serve it, please that distance. i've been talking about the pandemic and the availability of guns in the u. s. r. father compounding factors, 17 veterans

a day dying from suicide. the majority from self inflicted firearm injuries. ah, ah, wiley gray served in the marines as ammunition chief in helmand province the 9 months in 2008 and the rank of staff sergeant. he survived to deployments in support of america's war on terror and ended with acute post traumatic stress disorder. my own story was one where i felt like i was doing something patriotic until the moment i was in afghanistan. and i realized these people are in a threat to america is a tribal human beings living with basically nothing. why are afghanistan and iran can someone explain it? i've been asking that for years it's, it's iraq. the answer,

whereas iraq and it's paid for me like a, i got to the point where i remember, you know, having my grandfather's pistol, is there any special back at the stairs right now? and i just decided i'm going to kill myself. i'm done. i've had this appointment long enough, i've taken enough suffering. and i think i'm done. and man, i remember feeling good after going to the conclusion, i remember the palpable sense of that appointments going to end soon dropped. but while decided to see count, the girl flew to peru to live with a tribe in the amazon there, he received individual therapy in combination with

a locally prepared brew made with rain forest plans. this helped him to reset his mental defense mechanisms. while he was able to sleep again and gradually come to terms with his trauma, i felt for the 1st time in my life, a sense of being whole. it was absolutely transformational. and when i was in ceremony, one of the last times i saw 2 people that i know other veterans next to me in ceremony. they weren't really there, but that's when i saw my visions and they were laughing and they were smiling and they were happy. and i knew it was because they found something just like i had he turned his trauma into a mission to help us find tools for recovery. wiley founded veterans of war and advocates for using plant medicine to heal trauma.

but the war on terror has also inflicted deep physical wounds on many veterans an estimated 3500000 veterans have been exposed to toxic substances in post 911 deployment. among them. leroy torres the term. what do you think? a person, my leroy was deployed at the u. s. air base ballade in iraq when his symptoms started to show air or their help in ballade had the largest burn pit and theater in iraq. there was approximately 10 acres in diameter and everything that was still in the trash was,

was burned down with j. p a fuel and burned from plastic bottles styrofoam. from the ballade hospital they would burn medical waste body parts of equipment, the name it everything was being burned so that there really tickets all leroy torres returned to texas in 2010. at 1st he was diagnosed with constrictive bronchitis, a chronic lung disease. then in 2018, he was diagnosed with toxic brain injury. my disability, my state medical ratoma was denied never in right. while his james and i thought that i, we going through this hardship where i was worried about in shot or maybe lose.

lamar urges id, but never that across my that would have to deal with something that i would be facing. an invisible enemy is part of the war, the follow me home. this is the actual picture, my lungs. and you can see either the inflammation here and all this right here is it is, is a, it's a reversible is a condition you have to deal with the resi. jesus lee, 4 year old, our resume in diary. there are 85000 veterans who have sought treatment by illnesses possibly tied to burn pitts. this is a fraction of the 3500000 service members believe to have been exposed to toxic substances. around 75 percent of veterans bound, paid planes have been rejected to date. leroy and his wife

started the non profit group ban pits 360 to help other veterans suffering from internal war injuries. they built the warrior support santa in texas, which offer services to veterans in the area. if we don't have time people to day and time is the one thing site so well i see the recent action that's happened is only because we've had people like charlie, comedian and activists. john stewart joined them to voice his support for legislation to camp for veterans who have suffered toxic exposure. afghanistan, war veteran tom puerto is helping them in washington d. c. to illustrate how,

how diverse these exposures are, for example, um in kabul, save over a 1000000 people but without a modern sewer system. so you've got airborne feces blows around there and you're breathing, that's what i breathed every day. and then you've got the diesel generators of power, all of our operations are there probably half the size of this room. and there belching black smoke and service members or breathing that every day in may 2021. the burn pants team went to washington. d. c. they demanded the inclusion of 23 respiratory illnesses on the list of conditions, the qualified veterans for v, a benefits. and how can we need a presumption of the various cancers and a respiratory illnesses. and i'm, you know, division of disorders and lymphomas that are occurring in the veterans population

for all these talk exposures. defense contractors can view the u. s. congress as willy walkers chocolate factory. while veterans are back there like oliver, with a bowl with rule, asking please, sir, may i have some more? the pact act bill was passed by the u. s. senate on august the 2nd 2022, and signed into law. president biden on august the 10th. ah ah, it's a small ray of hope for leroy who's been waiting for nearly a decade to get his injury claims approved and some veterans are

getting disillusioned. they feel the u. s. government is giving more attention to bringing african refugees into the country. with america's war on terror in afghanistan and iraq came to a close up to 20 long years. it's major goal was to ensure that americas external enemies lose the ability to plot plan and execute another $911.00. but what about america's domestic security situation? some expert, se spikes and domestic white supremacist activism have regularly followed the closure of major military hostilities or after the withdrawal from vietnam and the 1st gulf war in the late ninety's white power groups trying to

recruit active duty soldiers, reservists, and veterans to form militias. lou, these extremist white groups found political legitimacy with the arrival of donald trump and an election campaign that deeply polarized the country. how do you come up with that? this is not a club. they say donald trump has off his dividing malaysian. well, because of all this, he got me by didn't the, he's revealing what's already there. does the vision has already been and been there for years in 2020 american society was more politically divided than ever. when donald trump went up against joe fighting in the presidential election,

i should add this crucial on the radio. you can identify yourself. it. chris hel, served as a marine from 1994 to 1998 in hawaii. he has strong views about immigration and fears. immigrants will take over the united states and by the end of the century, by 2099 will have 500000000 people. and the increase of about 200000000 will probably be from illegal immigration. and descendants of illegal immigration stepping off 1st, 2nd squad, got sick with nothing. you know, donald trump stood for america 1st make america great. again,

america. first, annuity is process a lot of processes, but very good. people should have more money. so that to me is that's my were the rally cries that i have in addition to the unsurmountable dead, but i'm worried about my country am. it is be in overwhelmed and flooded with well fare and illegal immigration and to the tune of over 20 train dollars and dead. and you, it was just going to collapse centers on, on. wait. some estimates such asked veterans like chris hill now make up at least 25 percent of militia rosters in the united states. yes. so back in 2009,

when i wrote the i now the tories department homeland security, right. we extreme as a report. i did have a little section in there that talked about returning veterans and how they could potentially be recruited by these, you know, right, we extremist groups to boost the biling capabilities of these groups and help them train and, and, you know, perfect their skills. ok. so one of the ways that the recruit online is through websites, twitter accounts, they even have online communities that are private, ready, ready for it, a move and boom. i am why i am prior military, i am christian, i am a 2nd amendment. there's yes. and now supposedly on the chair is that i want to risk go to jail and getting charged with a bunch of crap and ruining my life. but i'm a mad enough mad as hale, i can't take it any more and i'm going to exercise,

madame rides everywhere. let's go to that. i go, i want to shoot across you moving bow. in 2021, a video was published on line in which chris hel, rhea to write it. this message. the website has since been taken down in the video hill discussed why it was important to overthrow the united states government by violence if necessary. his video was published a few week softer. the january. the 6th, tara attack, and white rioters descended on capitol hill. a joint session of congress had gathered that day to certify the victory of joe biden. in the 2020 u. s. elections, but the trump supporters had other plans. they to update the stopped the steel movement. their aim was to forcibly reinstate donald trump as president of the united states of america. the movement started in on facebook and other groups. in

fact, it started before it hit those platforms, but shortly after election day, shortly after president trump. falsely and prematurely claimed that he had won the election, the beliefs that the election was stolen, that democrats reg, the election, install it for president joe biden stole it from former president. donald trump with widespread voter fraud. we surprised them. we took them by surprise in this year, they rigged election. they rigged them like they've never rigged it election before . the stump, the steel movements spread like wildfire on the internet. more and more protest as arrived. as weren't spread, that the vote count was underway. writers over part of washington, d. c. police. the officers calls for faculty went on hand. and while capitol hill, police struggled alone, the writers supported by serving and former military men broke in to capitol hill.

at least 8 points were breached the vastly outnumbered capitol hill, security officials managed to escort members of congress down to the bunker. as night fell back up arrived. and capitol hill was reclaimed. 10 percent of the people are for violence. criminal activity at the u. s. capital had either current or former military experience. and so what had the military done very little. it was fine for military members to belong to the militia group, military members that belong to militia groups. such as the 3 per centers that have committed violent acts against you know, people, police officers plotted bombings and shootings despite the arrest chris hill and the 3 percenters in georgia continue their movement.

ah, also because of their beliefs about muslim the attacks on the twin time by muslim extremists radically changed the discourse around islam in the us. according to the research institute, the new america foundation 2 in 5 americans believe islam is incompatible with us values. the distrust and hostility towards muslims has caused a rise in atlanta phobic attacks across the country. just one percent of americans are muslims, but 14.5 percent of all hate crimes committed in 2018, but motivated by anti islamic sentiment. according to a us government survey. one reason that his hatred against american muslims is the impact the war on terror has had on ami veterans. there's been multiple studies about the rise of islamic phobia. coinciding with returning veterans coming

back from the middle east. you know, when the veterans come home, they come back to these more zones where they've been taught and trained and conditioned to believe that people wearing turbans having long beards. and having these funny sounding names with brown skin are the threat i as part of the cost for project thomas ben, suit research, the ro christianity played in the us military post $911.00. the military uses kristen symbols and sort of ways of talking about um, military service as it would align specifically with the sort of christian narrative. the chaplains in the military are overwhelmingly white cliffs over 74 percent. they're overwhelmingly even shall colds over 63 percent. and they're of wrongly men at like 95 percent to my

fat. and so it ends up being this religious culture that is specifically bright leaning. some veterans perceived both the iraq and afghanistan war as a clash of civilizations, a war between christianity and islam. richard mckinney was inspired by the rambo films and joined the marine corps to be involved in the action. he returned from iraq with a hatred from muslims. i developed a deep hatred for his long over over course of several years. i've been in the military and having to deal with these people in a harsher climate areas for this way to put a harsher existence. i saw it is my position in life to rid the world of as many

muslims as i possibly could. and i attend to that was overseas and after i was medically retired because i was in an accident in iraq, back in the us, richard mckinney decided to make up on his plan was to plant his bomb in the atlantic centre of muncie. and then to watch the show as he put it from the parking lot. but the day he wanted to execute this plan, a conversation with his daughter changed the course of his life. so my daughter came home, she asked and i snapped, and i saw the look on my daughter's face. this is somebody who i've had so much love and admiration for the course of her life that i can even begin to describe it. as she looked at me like i was absolutely crazy person

she'd ever seen. and it was kind of like, she was questioning her love for that at me are. so i figured the best way to do is make sure that was okay. was go meet the richard mckinney decided to visit the very same islamic center of muncie. the emma gave him the koran to read and they would explain it how i could understand it. and i was like, oh, oh, i make sense. you know? so long story short after 8 weeks. i went from getting ready to bo, this building up to coming back, saying, i want to take your heart. i want to take my declaration of faith. his mother, he on no soul do with a law, plays a burden greater than it can bear in the us more than 700 anti muslim incidents had taken place from 2012 to 2018. we had

a number of arsons that have happened to mosque here, the united states, many of them unsolved. we've had militia groups protesting against what they perceive as impending sri, a law that's coming into their communities. that there's the like muslim invasion. but there are also veterans fighting against the rise of anti muslim hate crimes in america have been on me. so sharp is known as the muslim marine in the part of any $4000.00 and was the american who served in the us army making up just 0.3 percent of the military. hello, who i was active duty. so i was in the middle of my marine corps career that time and when 911 happened,

just like most people who lived that day, you know, i remember what was going on and and unfortunately, like when i pay me a lot days later we found out that these hijackers happened to be called for fun and i think that has given the firms and others perhaps as well a very bad reputation. unfortunately, when the 911 attacks happened, essentially 900 hijackers hijacked the entire phase of 1800000000 plus an attack on me and talk to my, my family will be back my family, my american family, you know man. so i was born in pakistan and he's a practicing muslim. he has made choices. some that disagree with me. they're part of the muslim community that they can't they,

they're shocked. this isn't a guy who has served the us are forces. i mean, i do get a message from time to time, you know, you know, your muslim killer and you call yourself, i'm not the topic. faith actually requires muslims to be loyal to their country of residence. so that means there was never a conflict of interest when it came to a country to what is out there between my faith and me becoming a united states marine, although he was never deployed overseas man. so i still found a conversation was needed inside america. i started mostly marine dot org to counter hate bigotry and his lamb, a phobia to education, conversation and dialogue. so being a muslim or being an american my 1st right. and what, according to the ground,

that even if the constitution, it's a big loyal to the country, i'm living it to be contributing to society in a positive way. so when i do that or that we stand on a position of saying, hey, look, i'm contributing in a positive manner, you share a voice that has impact. you're not just coming from the side, you're coming from within in a positive manner, we're part of them. so when they see you, when you create these dialogues and you sit and you eat together and you talk about these things openly and you create understanding, new people will inclined towards goodness. i think their faith teaches their mor good people in this world. and i believe that 20 years after $911.00, the united states is beginning to pick up the pieces from the walls and honest on and around. a man's or shops believes there are important lessons for america to learn. you know, i think america has made some really, really,

really bad decisions. you know, when it comes to, when it comes to us war and the way it sells it to the american public. you know, we look at iraq mean over a 1000000, innocent, largely innocent iraqis killed what i mean. they were living, breathing human being just like, you know, with our we need to really reexamine ourselves and we need to apologize. we need to make up for our mistakes. ah, ah, ah ah

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