Brian Klaas
speaker
544 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Feb
Brian Klaas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's some confidence of Trump that say that that was the night he decided to run for president and wanted to contest for the 2016 election. So, you know, whether that's true or not, we'll never know. But it's one of these intriguing aspects of history. We have Obama gambling his presidency. as he's telling jokes, maybe inspiring Donald Trump to enter the political fray.
And then, of course, you know, one of the helicopters crashes, one of the Blackhawks crashes during the raid. They managed to kill bin Laden successfully, but it's, you know, I mean, they didn't know. There was no way to know. And one of the things that happens when you have moments like this is that You tell history with the benefit of hindsight. Of course, they were going to succeed.
It's SEAL Team 6 on the CIA, right? But it could have gone very wrong. The Pakistan government might have noticed earlier and scrambled fighter jets. I mean, there's all these things. And I think when we encounter the stories of history, we know how they end. That's the area where if you write a book about World War II, it's impossible to inhabit a world where...
Where something else happens because we know what actually happened and forever our our sort of interpretation of events is biased by that what actually occurred. And we can never go back to that moment like Obama did on that fateful night where he genuinely didn't know what was happening.
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