that the wall where it's reached it self sustaining and so we may not see any site, any type of exploring in nairobi. thanks so much with tom. now for a quick recap of our top story, this, our american fighter jets have shot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon over american territorial waters. the balloon triggered a diplomatic storm that's kept the secretary of state from visiting china. efforts are now underway to collect the debris. that's your news roundup. i'm next by, sir. thanks for watching with leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. it is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand

today? the search for answers starts february 10th on d, w. ah, ah, not a major decision with clear eyes. i will not send another generation america to warn 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 fall at the o. we were completely 100 percent lost when it came to the politics of the fight who were actually fighting. and then what the in game was on

the war on terra's impact can still be felt in america. 10 percent of the people arrested for violence. criminal activity at the u. s. capital had either cur, former military experi. ah ah ah ah

ah, i was born on the bomb has it on monday be both a blog right now with on september, the 11th 2001 al qaeda attack, the twin towers in new york in response to 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

full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. or some, a bin laden was hunted and eventually killed in an operation led by the you asked 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 south and impeded progress as well as with gold. in the crossfire was afghanistan civilian population, more than 100000 people were killed either by us bombing campaigns or by taliban revenge attacks. that off

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, ice after 20 years. a trillion dollars spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of afghan as security and defense forces. i will not send another generation america to warn afghanistan would know reasonable expectation or

achieving the different outcome. in july 2021, the center of u. s. military operations in bank graham was swiftly evacuated. me. i've gone his dance. 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 unit 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 some reports,

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 schedule as we left. and so this was from 2009. and 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 kona vac 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 tower, then we just paint them all with one broad brush. they were, the enemy is thing to do. and then count as success as taking the fight to them without ever thinking about well, why do they keep coming? well ha, during his 2nd tor, jason dempsey was an advisor to the afghan military. his job was to train them to fight against the taliban. bought the 6 call of the afghan army number fewer than 300000 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, a 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 is government i get 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, hey, 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. instruct deals with afghan military commanders knows one of the hardest things about fighting the taliban is you know, they were people's brothers cousins own cause, you know, distant relatives. yeah. people who shared the same background and ethnicity and when we turn them into the enemy, right. that not the enemy to negotiate with or work with or try to bring in the full 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 an american troops left the afghan air force found itself with no re mechanism in place. to stay at the bottom, i thought for 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 we're there. and along as reporting billions are under 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 they were seen as wildly corrupt. in 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 years to come. on some 7000 us military service members were killed in battle in iraq and afghanistan. these wars may have come to an end, but the 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 war on terra veterans, have taken their own lives around 4 times as many as died in iraq and afghanistan movie. it's a suicide pandemic. that is devastated veteran families and communities. ah thomas ben suit is contributing also for the costs of wall project. he studied suicide rates among service members and veterans of the post $911.00 was mm. the suicide numbers are, are 2nd shift ranges from 60026400 veterans every year and died by suicide. that's where you get this. they would say 17 per day. unfortunately, moral injury feelings of burden some nest to society ah,

issues like taking a 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 cost. 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, killer nation than year to. so 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 wylie gray, served in the marines as ammunition chief in helmand province for 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. intertribal 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. and 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 coming to the conclusion, i remember the palpable fence of it. that appointment is going to end soon dropped, but while he decided to see count the girl, he 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 palms. 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 to my visions and they were laughing and they were smiling and they were happy. and i knew was because they'd found something just like i had he turned his trauma into a mission to help others 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 feel coming on? pressure minded leroy was deployed at the u. s. and base ballot in iraq when his symptoms started to show air or their help in ballade had the largest burn pit and theater in iraq. those 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 bela hospital. they would burn medical waste body parts of the equipment, the name it, everything was being burned so that they really took it all. leroy torres returned to texas in 2010. at 1st he was diagnosed with constructive bronchitis, a chronic lung disease. then in 2018, he was diagnosed with toxic brain injury. my disability, my state medical retirement was denied. never in right. while his james or i thought that i be 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 is right here. i said this is a reversible is the condition you have to deal with the resi. jesus re 4 year old, our resume in battery. 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. pit claims have been rejected to date. leroy and his wife started the non profit group,

been pitts, 360 to help other veterans suffering from internal war injuries. they built the warriors support santa in texas, which offer services to veterans in the area. if we don't have time he for a day and time is the one thing is tight, so we'll wait past the 20 or more of the one that should have been address it's. it's sort of criminal to the v a u v. that until you stalling the way they have to continue using science against us. i mean, i think the recent action that's happened is only because we've had people like john and john, 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 porter is helping them in washington dc. to illustrate how, how diverse um these exposures are, for example, um in cowboy 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. that would power all of our operations. are there perhaps 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 dc. they demanded the inclusion of 23 respiratory illnesses on the list of conditions,

the qualified veterans for v, a benefits and health care. 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't view the u. s. congress as willie walkers chocolate factory. while veterans are back there like oliver, with a bowl group, asking please, sir, may i have some more? the pact act bill was passed by the us senate on august the 2nd 2022, and signed into law by president biden on august the 10th. ah. with

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 failed. the u. s. government is giving more attention to bringing afghan refuge is into the country. with america's were on terra in afghanistan and iraq came to a close up to 20 long years. it's made your 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 after the withdrawal from vietnam and the 1st gulf war in the late ninety's white power groups tried to recruit active duty soldiers, reservists, and veterans to form militias. the waterloo, these extremist white groups found political legitimacy with the arrival of donald trump and an election campaign that deeply polarized the country. have you come up with that decision? donald trump, they say donald trump has off his knee by the malaysian. what? 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. but donald trump went up against joe fife in the presidential election. i. she's at this crucial on the radio. yeah, 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. here donald trump stood for america 1st make america great. again, america. first, annuity is process law processes. but where people should have more money. so that to me is that's my one of the rally cries that i have in addition to the unsurmountable dead. but i'm worried about my country and it is being overwhelmed and flooded with welfare and illegal immigration into the tune of over $23.00 and dead and you it was just gonna collapse honors 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 oh, now the 4 is department, homeland security. 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 violent 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 the online communities that are private, ready, read, read a move and boom. i am why i am prior military, i am christian,

i am a secular, limited museum. 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 anymore. and i'm going to exercise madame raj everywhere. let's go to that. i go, oh, shoot across you. moving. oh, 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 weeks after the january. the 6th tara attack, when 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 jo selections. but the trump supporters had other plans. they to update

the stop the steel movement. the aim was to forcibly reinstate donald trump as president of the united states of america. the movement started on facebook in other groups. in fact, it started before it hit those platforms, but shortly after election day, shortly after president trump falsely prematurely claim that he had won the election, the beliefs that the election was stolen, that democrats reg, the election, install it for president joe biden. still it from former president, donald trump with widespread voter fraud. we surprised them. we took him by surprise in this year. they rigged it election. they rigged it like they've never rigged it election before the stump, the steel movement spread like wildfire on the internet. more and more protest has arrived. as word spread that

the vote count was underway, writers overpowered the washington dc police. the officers calls for bank up went on hand at wal 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 retained 10 percent of the people arrested for violence. criminal activity at the u. s. capital had either current or former military experience. and so what has the military done a very little it was fine for military members to belong to a militia group, you know, military members that have belonged to militia groups such as the 3 per centers

that have committed violent acts against the, you know, people, police officers plotted bombings and shootings despite the arrests, chris hill and the 3 percent as in georgia, continue their movement. oh, also because of their leafs about muslims. the attack on the twin tar by muslim extremists radically changed the discourse around islam in the u. s. according to the research institute, the new america foundation 2 in 5 americans believe islam is incompatible with you and values. the distressed and hostility towards muslims has caused a rise in his lamp 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 u. s. government survey. one reason for this hatred against american muslims is the impact the war on tara has had on army veterans. there's been multiple studies about the rise of islam of phobia. coinciding with returning veterans coming back from the middle east. you know, when veterans come home, they come back from these board zones where they've been taught and trained and conditioned ah, to believe that people wearing turbans having long beards and having these funny sounding names with brown skin are the threat as part of the costs of war project, thomas ben, suit research, the ro, christianity played in the u. s. military post 911. 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. t chaplains in the military are overwhelmingly

white cliffs over over 74 percent. they're overwhelmingly even gel colds over 63 percent and they're of wrongly men. it's 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. maybe i use this for this way to put a harsher existence. i. busy so 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 this bomb in the islamic center 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. for my daughter came home, she asked, 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 in the course of her life that i can't 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 a 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 monarch on

no soul do with a law plays a burden greater than it can bear in the us more than 700 anti muslim incidence 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 the pending sri, a law that's coming into their communities. that there's this 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. he's part of only 4000 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, i remember what was going on and and unfortunately, like when i was as pay me a lot days later we found out that these hijackers happened to be full called for fun and i think given the firms and others perhaps as well, a very bad reputation. unfortunately, when the $911.00 attacks happened, essentially 1900 hijackers hijacked the entire phase of $1800000000.00 plus an attack on me. i'm going to talk to my, my family when i'd 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 they, they are shot. this isn't a guy who serves 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 and this is 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 to conversation was needed inside america. i started mostly marine

dot org to counter hate bigotry and his lamb, a phobia through education, conversation and dialog. so being a muslim or being an american my 1st right. and what according to the ground, not even just the constitution. it's been loyal to the country and living it to be contributing to society in a positive way. so when i do that or he does that, and then 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 sides, you're coming from within, in a positive manner where you're part. and 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 be inclined towards goodness, i think our faith teachers, there are more good people in this world and i believe that 20 years after

911, the united states is beginning to pick up the pieces from the was enough chemist on and iran at man. so sharp 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 beings. just like you and i were, we need to really reexamine ourselves and we need to apologize. we to make up for our mistakes. ah ah

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