is more than one error but one was not to try to do what we're doing now with afghan forces the mujahideen fought the soviets and the afghans other afghans to get to a political agreement to have negotiations like the one among afghans so that is that the withdrawal was. being carried out by the soviet forces there was an order there. and agreement and a political process among the forces in play so that and. that was because the lack of trust between the united states and the soviet union at the time many people didn't think the soviets were serious about would draw but also the afghans made the. sacrifice so much to push the soviets out to force them out and the world benefited from the. soviet departure and what followed that departure which is the disintegration of the soviet union but the afghans were one. a great victory at huge cost. politically by going to civil war against each other i hope the afghans are paying attention learning the lessons of that period we certainly have learned. and that's why we've started this peace process to get the afghans to negotiate that's why i call

those who perpetrated the mass murder attacks of 9/11 were the mujahideen-era alumni of the resistanceviet occupation in afghanistan. today, we are facing an al-qaeda and an isis alumni that is orders of magnitude greater than that mujahideen-era alumni ever was. and they also have access to much more destructive capabilities. >> pelley: the president says that he is drawing down our troops in afghanistan to about 5,000. and withdrawing 12,000 from germany. >> mcmaster: i think these are both big mistakes. i think they're mistakes because they're consistent with, i think, this sentiment that you see really across both political parties for retrenchment or withdrawal from complex problem sets overseas. >> pelley: people are tired of these wars. >> mcmaster: yeah, they're tired of the wars and we lack confidence. we lack confidence because we haven't had, i think, sound strategies and policies in place and americans are losing faith in these efforts. i don't blame them. >> pelley: as for the president, mcmaster told us foreign policy was not his favorite subject. mcmaster would brief to

stop us physically with this prank a mock ambush firing over our vehicle and pretending it was mujahideen in the woods leaping around like idiots pretending thinking we were idiots who would believe them the bosnian serbs don't call a massacre a concentration camp and come in they challenged i.t.n. and see it feel selves under serbian armed guard for our own protection a 3 day journey ended here at the gates of a disused mine in northern bosnia but we insisted that we wanted to see the ones that had the. rumors from where the rumors were emanating them that the killing was happening which was a secret hidden the red cross had never been that they'd been denied access why. terrible things happening there were there was a group of women lined up at the side of the police station in pretoria while we were kicked out side 1.2 while they made phone calls in the crisis stuff and we asked these women what are they all doing they were all waiting for news of their menfolk and was only one word on their lips all must. go on. there is no time or any support. for making. the lessons i am equipped to

is more than one error but one was not to try to do what we're doing now with afghan forces the mujahideen fought the soviets and the afghan other afghans to get to a political agreement to have negotiations like the one that started here yesterday . among afghans so that is that the withdrawal was. being carried out by the soviet forces there was an order there. and agreement and a political process among the forces in play so the and. that was because the lack of trust between the united states and the soviet union at that time many people didn't think the soviets were serious about would draw but also the afghans made the. sacrifice so much to push the soviets out to force them out and the world benefited from that. soviet departure and what followed that departure which is the disintegration of the soviet union but the afghans were one great victory at huge cost for you politically by going to civil war against each other i hope the afghans are paying attention learning the lessons of that period we certainly ever learned. and that's why we've started this peace process to get the afgh

it was the mujahideen era elite alumni who conducted the attacks against the united states on septembers greater and larger than the mujahideen, and by the way, they have access to much more destructive capabilities and they're much more mobile and capable based on encrypted communications, based on the fact that they can move more freely across the world, and so i think it's immensely important for us to sustain our efforts. one of the reasons why we have not seen another mass murder attack like 9/11 is because our forces have been abroad engaged with these enemies and working mainly through partners. >> right. >> in afghanistan, for example -- in afghanistan, we've lost ten of our amazing soldiers, you know, this year, but about 30 afghan soldiers or police are killed every day defending their country and really all humanity, you know, from these enemies of all civilized peoples. >> finally, you didn't vote when you were in the military. will you vote this year? >> i'm having a discussion with my family about it. i really think that the military should stay completely out of politics.

justice breyer is joint and discussion by our very own gw mujahideen and associate dean alan morrison. i especially want to thank them both for the leadership for gw and for the help in making this event possible. dean nasr is a a visionary and strategic leader of gw law and she join our community this year. she is a national recognized lawyer and legal scholar with three decades of industry and academic experience. she has an expert in health equity and public health policy and she is driven by a passion for public service. associate dean morrison is a learned family associate dean for public interest and public service at gw law. law. he is responsible for creating pro bono opportunities for students, bring a wide range of public interest programs to gw law and encouraging students to seek positions in the nonprofit and government sectors. i am not pleased to turn our program over to associate dean morrison. >> thank you, president leblanc, and it's my great privilege and honor to welcome associate justice stephen breyer was about to start his 27th term on the supreme court. i'll ju

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