certain sanctions the united states has put on iran since walking away from the nuclear deal earlier this year around and argued that the i.c.j. the united nation's highest court that certain sanctions imposed against them by the trump regime has adversely affected the importation of humanitarian goods and products and that coupled with backing out of the nuclear deal violates the fifty's era treaty between the two countries and while the court didn't accept all of the rounds arguments they did in a preliminary ruling find that the united states must remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from sanctions that affect humanitarian goods and services and that u.s. assurances that sanctions won't hurt humanitarian aid were not adequate. but rather than really examine the impact of these sanctions or at the very least start some form of dialogue with iran over them secretary of state decided to put sanctions over people and announce to the world the united states is terminating the nine

hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran this is the decision it's frankly thirty nine years overdue well that's one way of dealing with the situation you know rather than follow the rule of law let's just abolish the rules we're breaking bombshell went on to declare iran is abusing the i.c.j. d.j. for political and propaganda purposes given iran's history of terrorism ballistic missile activity and other multi-line activity around claims under the treaty are absurd. right you know mike because the united states never had a history of terrorism or malign activity toward iran. you self-delusion of exceptionalism is strong when you're not watching a whole x. . forty. three that looks like

real that this would be. as it were the plot of. the day like you know that i got. to. tell them what all the watch was all excited so i rolled them and i'm out of the list yeah i threw the brat mentality is very very. marrow who can have you it's just strange to me with everything going on in the world that they that this is the time when suddenly it's this. craziness. right and who's behind it but missed a mustache and so yeah i mean you got bold pale like this kind of tag team of spineless wonder the bratty wonder going out in the above they were what they were

not because they had to sit there eight years the liberal level democrats also by the way democrats aren't lefty or liberal just why i should probably choice republicans really blogs and doesn't care is why it's such a big thing now and why it's so it seems so immediate like this must be done we must walk back all of this because all this financial up people not just for rahm but for other countries as well but because also you know basically like they're getting called to task internationally right so it's like oh well what we need to figure out how not to be called to task internationally so let's get rid of these treaties i mean bolton john bolton speaking of our body. the national security advisor announced that the united states is withdrawing from the optional dispute resolution process. of the of vienna convention on diplomatic relations old sub the decision was made because of a case brought by palestine over president trump's decision to relocate the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem so it's like anything that doesn't go

their way that they're called the task of internationally well let's just get rid of or run away from it's any criticism if there's criticism of every anything there can't just be a what you know you're the secretary of state you're you're kind of a head of diplomacy and you're literally saying no we're not doing that diplomacy thing anymore that's just silly and that's what i find most disturbing since that's literally where the diplomatic corps comes from right as some would say it'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 that we're talking about the i.c.j. which 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 early but they're using it well you know anyway what will bolton have 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 are going to recognize the court mean more and whatever so why do you whereas as it's being politicized you're asking the court to beat make a political decision right and you're asking 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 the sanctions or whatever it's as well as politicize the process as politicized which a lot of times like so. 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 hardline rhetoric as we as we march towards iran it's very similar to the march to the war with iraq moulton has assured reporters that the u.s. policy is not regime change but we do expect substantial change in their behavior

meaning iran but this is contrary to the john bolton who was on fox news before he was national security advisor 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 over at the end of the bay of 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 actually 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 a large trucking companies but heard 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 proximity in the day as a kid 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 their gear into our lanes and i got thirty five years accident free this all comes assist to stick from the truck safety coalition 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 fatalities were up yet again they're up forty one percent since

two thousand and nine navvies drivers say that they hope their show of solidarity will lead to positive and prove men's and industry in which many of them have contributed the majority of their careers along with countless hours on the road in washington rachel watkins arsene. don't see those protests very often well you know and i think you're going to see more because i think this is where everybody sort of forgetting that you know the republicans in the truck administration really really got a lot of these blue collar workers and industrial workers and because i saw the related jobs they were going to make a better more manufacturing all of this and that was these truckers now where you have to answer is about three and a half million truck drivers semi truck drivers in the united states and about one in nine of them are independent and a majority of those are owner operators work so they own the truck and they are own the business that it is as though i mean it's a while when you're independent cause you can't cover these things right and not

a corporation i thought it really was striking when they're saying like look we understand the need these electronic logging devices to understand why they were put in but at the end of the day they're actually making new even more dangerous or just as dangerous as it was before because of the struck. to avoid you know how many hours they can be on the road about a family member who's a truck driver it's a brutal the bizarre job you know you don't where's the job it's a good job but it's a hard job and what's interesting is that like according the united states perhaps transportational instructor was required to follow these strict hours of service regulations are tracked by these mortgage electronic boarding devices but when like a magical disaster strikes as you were saying. they get waved off and a lot of these regulations they're complaining about are regulations that you know benefit the big corporation but don't benefit the independent contractor that you know i present small business a lot of these guys are you know and i think one of the jeff to look at is that this whenever you see the requirement of a device or requirement that some piece of product has to be put into your vehicle

and it's tracking things you've got to ask yourself who is making it what kind of algorithm is behind it and as they said does it allow for truck drivers who've been doing this their whole lives many times twenty thirty years you know according to the owner operator independent drivers association you've got on average small business truck drivers try more than one hundred fifteen thousand miles a year that's more than three million miles and their life time they spend up to two more than two hundred forty nights a year away from home and typically they have to pay in excess of ten thousand dollars in federal taxes plus state taxes more than six thousand dollars for their trucks now why wouldn't you ask them to make certain judgment calls when it comes to you know safety how long you drive because as they said it says you have to drive between me is ours you know and then you have to instead of breaking it up or knowing how they're sleeper these are people drive millions of miles they should

have talked to the workers before they talk to the companies that. talk to the corporate lobbyists at the end of the day why would a corporate lobbyist a lawyer about safety and things like. that are it is required precautions don't forget the. let us know what you think of the property over debate with the where your poll shows that are dot com coming up the former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of the one michael bellew joins us to celebrate your coming seventeenth birthday of the u.s. war in afghanistan. stay to. watch it americans work other types of stalin and obamacare stalling that up through the central bank that money transferred into the pockets of a few cartel members to create while the gap social unrest social cohesion risk and

wide scale poverty washed that out. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics for this knows i'm show business i'll see you then. this sunday on october seventh we here in the united states of america get to celebrate a very special birthday no it's not the birthday of a great leader from our short but storied history no it's not the birthday of a contemporary great minder innervate or it's the birthday of the one thing we are really good at these days and directionless or yes this sunday marks the seventeenth anniversary of the start of the u.s.

war in afghanistan seventeen years that means for the first time in u.s. history a seventeen or eighteen year old living in the united states today can sign up to fight in a war that has started around the time he or she was born and as if right on cue with the annual rec. ignition of us militarism tax dollar ways to affect us foreign policy the war in afghanistan claimed another us soldiers lives the u.s. service member was assigned to the nato operation resolute support and was killed on october fourth this soldier joins over two thousand u.s. soldiers and an estimated thirty plus thousand afghan citizens that have been killed since the war began back in two thousand and one joining us today to discuss this most tragic of birthdays this former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense michael mosley michael always a pleasure having you on to your expertise. just for context this is incredible seventeen years i think for contacts for people who hold the u.s. . war our operations there. is older than facebook you tube twitter

instagram so that basically social media you're about to give older than social media just for people so that all the while why is the united states still fighting there what is driven to seventeen years of this i think there's a lot of geo political reasons part of it too is that we had the taliban on the run at one point then we got diverted with the iraq war and by then we should have been focusing on afghanistan rebuild it since we went to all the trouble to kick out the taliban again we went in because they wouldn't turn over osama bin laden but then we got diverted and as a consequence we lost track of that it went into into a into a state of mind listeners and and the attention then focused on iraq seventeen years later taleban is coming on stronger than ever they are they they were defeated at one time and now they occupy more than fifty percent of the country and

they're getting stronger and stronger all the time they're in some cases and they're merging with. isis and so in some respects i think the war has taken on a new twist now the rules of engagement have been relaxed to give our soldiers more opportunities also from a just political standpoint i think it's also meant to deflect iran's growing influence to cast itself in that area even though historically iranian influence has always been there same with india same with the 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 that region should be. the one. 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 fine working 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. anthem 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 of cars the damage then you come in and you fix

things 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 they 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 but you don't see the public or political outcry over the war and i think this 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 having a construct that i think we're into a where 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 this site even and nobody none of the great thinkers up there in the policy positions has an answer and i guess i've been there three presidents and 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 even then there was the surge of the good old us there here is just so one thing after another completely there yet and we oteri 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 u.s. 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 or 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. what is the current official plan for victory you know because we keep your eye like rick perry of folk knows what's the current plan for victory and at this point what would that victory what is a victory and 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 all 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 about you're talking 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 leisure no day always a pleasure 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 their moons have eluded scientists for decades until now taking the clues from kaplan or the nasa european space agency hubble space telescope was enlisted to confirm the findings and it looks like they're pretty close to doing so while observing a large gas giant called kepler one six two five b. about eight thousand light years from earth scientists are able to see deviations and wobbles when the moon and its orbit pass between hubble and kepler one six two five b. the exo moon is about four times larger than earth but since it's

a gas moon and a gas planet it wouldn't be happy to pull so don't go close to going to just. say nasa and the european space agency just should keep a meaning for that x. own because even if you're wrong you'll still be out looking among most oh i love it sixty years old sixty congratulations mr dobbs a birthday i enjoy so a bird nest is about that's going to grow there is bad for it we're going to that is rather that it was over there a little but i've got to say happy birthday for the what happened for all of us watching all this keep up the great work that you're doing that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told the pure love the story told you all love you i am i wrote on top of the list keep it from cold hard to that word heard there by the body.

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