and the so-called haqqani network became a lethal enemy for the u.s. military in afghanistan well according to many the network indeed pose a problem today how big of a morale boost was it when mikhail gorbachev. we drew his troops withdrew the russian troops from afghanistan was that really what paved the way for the success that those in al-qaeda later would say was the events of $911.00 yeah it was a huge morale bus is probably the high point in the history modern history of jihadism they've defeated a superpower and they were they felt that they were now ready to take on all these other you know enemies of obvious lom that's kind of ironic as far as the foreign fighters like bin laden are concerned because they didn't do very much in the. victor soviet union it was the afghans themselves who expelled the soviet union not not the arabs but still people like bin laden kind of they going to use or appt that victory but i think i would say that more important because of kind of al qaeda rising and growing international. was that of dollars zam had basi

i like haqqanis amid. i like canadians, but they are different. they are different. there's no first amendment. they can really land hard on you and you have no recourse. doesn't happen a lot because canadians are nice. i i likee to say their neurotics were psychotics. but there are lots, protections we have that they just don't. >> have you actually looked at the canadian constitution, the one adopted in the 1980s? >> no. >> very interesting. it basically begins by some reference to whereas a statute under queen victoria allows us to do this thing. we've got permission from our parents to declare independence. and from my point of view, i think i would say canada basically becomes independent because our hero, lincoln, when's the civil war, and canada -- britain begins to give up its nuclear ambitions once it's clear that america is not going to divide. so they dealt -- nick kosir independence actually to us. they didn't fight for in quite the same way and i think that is to some extent a teaspoon of some of things you're saying. the people who basically, if the ame