Christiane Amanpour

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4,556 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Having been flown over on some rickety helicopter over the Hindu Kush. voice-verified

And I honestly we I feel like we were just a few inches over the mountains in a very rickety helicopter and that we were lucky to have landed. voice-verified

But anyway, we did. voice-verified

And just to kind of cut to the chase, it was considered a just war. voice-verified

It was a war to attack and have, you know, accountability for a group. voice-verified

Us, essentially, if I was speaking as an American and also the British were involved in that leg. voice-verified

And then it really did help. voice-verified

It did help. voice-verified

I will go to my grave saying that it did help, no matter how catastrophically it ended when you know Trump negotiated the return of Afghanistan to the Taliban. voice-verified

Biden, when you were in office, negoti negotiated or implemented perhaps the worst, you know. voice-verified

uh pull out of American troops since Vietnam. voice-verified

But for those twenty years, despite all the shortcomings, there was movement on all the major indicators to bring more progress to Afghans and to Afghanistans and most particularly to the women. voice-verified

So I think that is a fact. voice-verified

It really did. voice-verified

As I say, no matter voice-verified

no matter what happened and no matter the terrible state it's in right now after the US and NATO pull out. voice-verified

But I think what we r should really talk about is, as we were saying, voice-verified

What propelled the United States to divert valuable resources and officers and commanders who knew what they were doing in Afghanistan, who had a plan, they devoted all the best and the brightest to Iraq, barely a year after what was what they had started in Afghanistan. voice-verified

By 2002, all the generals and people who knew what was going on there were moved to Iraq. voice-verified

For a war of choice and a war that, as we know, ended up, at least I know, ended up being based on. voice-verified

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