Ryan Lucas
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157 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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The knock on America's standing in the world is a real thing.
People bring it up in conversations.
And that stems back to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
It stems back to the torture of CIA prisoners in secret CIA prisons.
You have drone strikes that, you know, we talked about how some in the national security community view those as very effective.
But there are also a lot of civilians that were killed in those.
And in Yemen, in Pakistan, in Libya, you've got people who are directly affected by that.
And so you have the blowback to that.
We haven't talked a whole lot about Guantanamo Bay.
That remains an issue.
Many people would say a stain on America's record.
And so these things were done, perhaps some of them out of good faith, but
They were driven to a large extent, I think, by fear of another attack, by anger over the fact that the United States was attacked.
And I think that to an extent, the politics that we have today is arguably an outgrowth of that.
country.
And you, of course, also have the FBI in the wake of 9-11, certainly turning its vast powers to a large extent on the Muslim community in the search of more potential hijackers, terrorists, or plots.
And so it was a community that certainly felt that it was unfairly targeted.
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