Mark Wales
speaker
3,479 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Mark Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has close access to all of the presidential inner circle.
He interviews them.
He writes a book.
The book will come out based on interviews he's only done a month or two earlier.
Yeah.
So they're very contemporary.
And he discussed the process behind the surge planning that Obama went through.
And when I was reading it, it was clear that the political interest in continuing the war was gone.
Right.
And that's the point where I was like, this is really bad.
What are we doing?
We're fighting our ass off and the people who are actually in charge don't want us to be fighting.
Yeah.
And that's when I realized we're in a bit of trouble here.
Yeah.
It was a confusion over what our role was.
Yeah, yeah.
Because when we started, it was, okay, we're going to go kill or capture the guys that perpetrated September 11th.
Then it was, okay, we're going to get this militia that are anti-coalition.
They're Taliban.
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