Mark Wales

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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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.

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They're bad.

We're going to go get them.

Then we stayed on the Taliban for years.

There were actually still some Al-Qaeda guys when I went there that had come out of other battlefields and arrived.

They were a real handful.

They were really good.

But most of our fighting concentrated on the Taliban, which were, they're pretty nasty, but they're not, uh, they're not an international threat.

They're a local threat.

So, yeah, I think, um, we just weren't, we weren't paying attention.

I don't think our politicians were being fed the wrong information.

Yeah.

And, uh,

I think a lot of journalists were afraid to challenge what we were doing.

Yeah.

And we just kind of just drifted along for four or five years.

It is.

It's like it must be important.

If we've got this many people and everyone's – people are getting killed.

Let's not question it.

Yeah.

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