Steve Inskeep
speaker
81 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Steve Inskeep’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This week, the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the United States.
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The journalist Peter Bergen says that's long enough ago that for many people, it's not even a distant memory.
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Peter Bergen covered terrorism even before that attack.
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As a CNN producer, he was part of a team that interviewed Osama bin Laden in the 1990s in Afghanistan.
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After 9-11, he followed the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq.
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anti-terror campaigns around the world, the raid to kill bin Laden, and more.
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He's written a book about that quarter century called All the President's Wars.
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Bergen says the wars changed American security and American politics.
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One change was the growth of presidential power, including the power of presidents to go to war, whether the public approves or not.
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You're telling me there's all these things that should be necessary or traditionally would have been necessary for a president to take the country to war.
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And we have evolved into a situation where the president can ignore all that and just go to war.
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out of Congress,
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I feel we need for even some adults listening to this to recall this is 2011.
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Arab Spring.
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There are all these uprisings.
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Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, is under pressure.
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And the U.S.
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supported with Europeans this campaign to unseat him, right?
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That's what you're talking
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Did President Trump in his first term also contribute to this gradual expansion of presidential power?
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