Even Newt Gingrich agrees that the U.S. should get out of Afghanistan — right now. But he’s still hawkish on Iran, prompting an unsurprising outburst from Cenk: “They never learn!” Cenk points to a poll done of men ages 15-30 in Afghanistan’s southern provinces, where 92 percent said they were totally unaware of 9/11 or why the U.S. had originally invaded the country.
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War in Afghanistan
- Reports that CIA has been unsuccessfully bribing Afghanistan for years suggests it might be doing US more harm than good
- In real life or ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ can torture help the US stop terrorists like Osama bin Laden?
- Ex-CIA agent says most government intelligence experts agree that ‘torture [does] not yield quality intelligence’