dave's apartment and having someone who doesn't seem to respect what diplomacy is and what that has thing has in it is what's really are really kind of scary when you look at the international criminal court so we're talking about the i.c.j. which i think is funny because again it's this way don't believe in the eye of the day and the international criminal court we don't care but now all the sudden are like but they're using it when you don't care about anyway what will bolton have said about this really has less to do with iran and the palestinians than with the continued consistent policy of the united states to reject the jurisdiction of the international court of justice which we think is politicized and effective here's the problem you already said you weren't going to take that you weren't going to recognize the court anymore and whatever so why do you whereas as it's being politicized you're asking the court to make a political decision right and you're asking the anyone that's their own standard excuses that tablets like i mean the court or any kind of body of law whether

domestically or or internationally goes against their political ideology or whatever they're trying to live around of people's throats with resections or whatever it's as well as politicize the process as politicized which a lot of times like i said they're the ones politicizing it but here's what's really fun to me. for those of you feeling like deja vu all over again with this kind of hard wired rhetoric as we as we march towards iran it's very similar to the march to the war with iraq has assured reporters that the u.s. policy is not regime change but we do expect substantial change in their behavior meeting or rather but this is contrary to the john bolton who was on fox news before he was national security adviser because he said this just like a year ago there's a lot we can do and we should do it our goal should be regime change in iran. who do we believe here or which john bolton do we all know is a job oh look you have the bay of the spineless coward that's just like

a pig. from the women's march to the march for a lives protest here in washington d.c. are pretty common occurrence but this week saw a very unique protest hit the national mall in the form of truckers in the wake of safety regulations being way of dr natural disasters most recently following hurricane florence members of the trucking industry are calling for changes most notably some independent contractors and small companies are accusing the government of acting in favor of big corporations who has ever heard of that here's our t. america's rachel weapons with more. truck drivers from across the united states have gathered together in washington d.c. to protest current regulations which they say were passed in the name of safety but of that done more harm than good organizers of the ten for protest said their mission is to bring truck drivers together to unite against regulations that help

the large trucking companies but herd small companies and independent contractors the transportation industry the trucking specifically as a whole is heavily regulated by the federal government right so we have a lot of different i mean our our safety book or regulation book is like this you know it's massive book and these drivers have to know that inside now a lot of those regulations especially over like the course of basically last ten years have made it harder and harder and harder for the small guy to be to remain successful some of the truck drivers were critical of the electronic logging device mandate that went into effect in two thousand and seventeen which gives them a limited amount of time to drive during the day instead of letting them break up their driving time according to their judgment it was all done in the name of safety but it hasn't really made things any so. you've got guys that are pushing the envelope they're trying they're driving faster you know trying to get more productive as much part of it in

a day as they can and they're taken chances as far as being forced to use it no i don't agree with that because nobody wants to be forced into anything and we shouldn't be forced to have to have that drivers are doing things they shouldn't be doing there and into our lanes and i got thirty five has accident free this all comes a statistic from the truck safety kolisch and show that conditions for truck drivers have only gotten more dangerous over the years unfortunately you know we just got new figures yesterday for data that came out in two thousand and seventeen showed that truck crash the taliban were up yet again they're up forty one percent since two thousand and nine now these drivers say that they hope. i've been saying the number. they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten points over time stamp. eighty five percent of global wealth to the

bridge six percent market so thirty percent is one of your home with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit. china russia but the united states chooses to not participate in regional discussions that can come to a political resolution because they i think the united states realizes we don't really belong there and the countries in their region should be. the ones who who come up and resolve that problem but that's not where the us is heading they want to continue on with military and i think that this spawns a. response to a desire to that we have to have a war at all times in order to justify our military spending the job creation and the defense industrial complex to keep keep that in find work in order while one of the things i noticed is that. there was an article in time magazine

and it said the donald trump has devoted some thirty tweets to the n.f.l. and some controversy during his presidency he tweeted about afghanistan only about five times and you know now we're three presidents and. to the war in afghanistan why have u.s. presidents been so completely blundered by this war because you said it seems obvious if you get the people out to cause the damage then you come in and you fix that and you do this you don't get distracted by all of this stuff but. well you got to consider too the government we installed there. would fall probably in three days if we left and pakistan. is just waiting they'd be guard afghanistan it's within their sphere of influence which is way to tell the bond you've got to keep in mind it was a creation of the pakistani intelligence service and so they're just wait it out

the taliban just wait us out and we now refuse to talk to the taliban although we tried to invite them to a few minutes but they realize that more and more the united states is not winning we had one hundred thousand troops in there at one point we still didn't accomplish anything and now even with the limited number of troops u.s. troops have there again their mission is changed at that time they were combat oriented today they're more advise and train and that's not that that's not going to win anything plus they're located in remote areas and the taliban just goes around and you know one of the interesting things is is that you know this year we saw a good story seventeen you saw five hundred afghan civilian casualties and we've seen that think some things i think the number of u.s. soldier casualties and some more you know multiple thousands well you don't see the public or political outcry over the war and i think that's just because it's gone on so wall you know is this truly kind of the forgotten us war it is the forgotten

war and this is the unfortunate thing because people realize that there is no solution the united states insists that it's going to stay there the question is why. it's not within our sphere of influence we have one time we're in the central asia we left russia asserted itself and basically crowded the u.s. out of there and i was at the pentagon at the time that we were in and out of. bed to stand. down now today the u.s. has receded from that area we should be doing the same with with afghanistan with region. back in and in an agreement but the afghan government that we created is so corrupt billions of dollars have been lost that we don't know where it went was and nine hundred billion i think it's just an incredible believe me just on reconstruction i think we're at i get more into i think a construct that i think we're into a approaching a trillion right now in terms of what we spend just in afghanistan alone not to

mention the six trillion in. iraq i mean it's getting worse and there's no way to cite even nobody none of the great thinkers up there in the policy positions has an answer and i guess i've been there three presidents you can't land afghanistan doesn't try to fall and i just to be clear many other things are but this one is and this is one area where you know bush couldn't get it done. when he had done a one point until two thousand and three right and then wolfowitz diverted him and then we lost track and the taliban came back and then obama basically was like caught in the water drawdown but didn't really leave and then there was the surge of the good old us there you're just saw one thing after another completely another yeah and we all sorry go ahead i was going to say i think i think russia has a working group that is focused on afghanistan and i don't i know i know

for a fact the us has been invited to that working group numerous times and has turned it down the question is why i don't have the answer and i think that if we really want peace in those areas then we should be working with countries in that region but we don't we don't want to have iran involved we don't want the russians involved for for reasons that were seen in other issues and so when we just continue on. doing this this thing which is now the definition of insanity doing the same thing hoping for a different outcome it just never happens. and that point that's the question i want to ask you actually is that what is the current official plan for victory you know because we keep your eye like rick perry is so close to the current plan for victory and at this point what would that victory what is a victory in afghanistan in the in the. abstractly is to train the afghan forces to be able to assume these responsibilities but they're not doing it

they're just not doing it they're not up to the task not withstanding all the training that they receive many of them go to the taliban they're paid off and you know they just are not equipped to deal with this thing and and as i said the taliban is just wait in the mouth we've tried to bring in the taliban at some point but they decided they don't want to plus we don't like their harsh conditions how they treat people or things like that so that's why we're we're continuing to back a affectless government and it's totally ineffective i mean i had a i had an intelligence officer tell me recently that if the united states were to leave. kabul would fall within a week well while you think why is that we're quick do you think that taliban or some version of it could become a legitimate political party with an advantage standing within the middle east that actually is running a government and could that be well i think the notion is to try to incorporate

them into the current government that there are some elements of taliban that even the taliban are split on how they want to go some of them would like to join the government others just want to wait us out the pens upon their their views and their extremism in the hinterlands they basically control everything and even in areas where we have posts i've seen films i saw actually an iranian film. crew that went in recently in a telephone controlled area. they had totally surrounded the british fort out in the middle of nowhere and the taliban is running and running everywhere they just everywhere and how do you deal with that and be effective and then we don't have combat troops in there any longer it's just advising to advise and train it's to get the afghan military and security forces the do the job and they're not doing it you know it's interesting as you mentioned earlier too is that there's a lot of people you know we just recently had apple become the first trillion dollars in the company but you know afghanistan is like the first i think trillion

dollar war and even there's some estimates that it's even higher and you mentioned you know you combine iraq and what you're talking about three to five trillion or yeah i would hope when you see numbers like that combined with the casualties the people eventually politically in this country will feel justified to say you know what seventeen years is too long we didn't accomplish what we're supposed to let's pull out as best we can like you said work with the regional people there and the riders are good some kind of answer and some kind of stability without sacrificing another year or more trillions of dollars michael thank you so much less you know they always are thanks for talking with you. again. on october first of this year nasa the national aeronautics and space administration turned sixty years old and last year now since kepler space telescope found clues suggesting that there was an x. so moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system well many exoplanets have been found there moons have eluded scientists for decades until now taking the clues from kaplan or

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