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Unregistered 259: Meg Smaker, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Michael Tracey & Clint Russell

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The Futility of the War on Terror

"I think if you don't get a very potent sense of the futility of the entire enterprise of the war on terror, by the fact that they had to haul in 16 year olds in 2001," he said. "It's not unique to people who were born in Yemen and happened to accept this wild offer to go fight in the backwoods of Afghanistan because they have rockets available" He added: "As Americans, I feel that we have the propensity to want to fix things and make things more efficient and make things better."

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