ind my pride way with george friedman, geopolitical -- i end my friday with george friedman.th us. lisa abramowicz preparing for the 9:00. george, thank you for being with us. there is a sentence in your essay. last century we were at war 17% of the time. what went wrong? george: we started to go to work 21% of the time. we were hit by al qaeda. we went into afghanistan on a raid to capture al qaeda. we failed at that and they escaped. then we did not know what to do. we did what we do know how to do, we sit troops in and tried to create a different country. afghanistan is afghanistan. it has been that way for a long time. in the end we spent a generation there. 20 years. we've got nowhere in terms of pacifying the country. it is time to leave. when you leave a war, it looks ugly. more ugly than most, but it looked ugly. tom: i thought of you about four or five days ago, 19 56 and the hungarian revolution. you lived, get out of dodge, get out of the country. how do you see the united states assisting afghans who say -- the taliban want out of afghanistan. how do we get them o

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