Rob Stein

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556 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Trump's oil "deal" and gunboat diplomacy | Sources & Methods · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

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Yeah, Scott, it may be a bit premature to call it a forever war as we did in those other cases, but you certainly see a lot of similarities here. matched

You know, we think of nine eleven, one of those stunning seminal events that it just, you know, so hard to get your head around at the time. matched

And yet to me, 25 years later, I'm I'm to me I'm seeing something almost equally remarkable that the US is still at war in the very same region, uh, you know, a country right next door to Afghanistan. matched

The US fought for 20 years in Afghanistan. matched

And the day the US left, the Taliban were still in power, having returned. matched

Um, that this Iraq war was so difficult and and took took so long. matched

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And then here is the U.S. matched

fighting another unresolved, difficult war, uh no clear end in sight. matched

You know, how can the U.S. matched

be so dominant on the battlefield as it has in the early days of all three of these wars and be unable to achieve the political outcomes that it wants? matched

And what's interesting here is that the first time is that the first time is matched

Yeah, I mean, you know, the Pete Hagseth does represent a lot of young officers and young enlisted men who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and said, We won't let this happen again. matched

We'll we'll never take you down this path where we we have an undefined policy where we just uh sit in these places without a clear goal. matched

Uh you know, they they weren't going to do it period, let alone get get stuck in them. matched

And yet Hegeth has been a full throated supporter of this operation and has been widely criticized for its incoherence and its lack of clear goals. matched

Is it about Iran's nuclear program? matched

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