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Oct 31, 2026
Alex DekkerGUEST
there was a lot of that there's a lot of there's a lot of preparation too you know and that's um especially you know you talk about being um stuck in kuwait for all that time that was i think how we and a lot of other teams tried to fill the time was take advantage of the ranges that are out there take advantage of the training and just get yourself as sharp and i will say again on a positive note because i always look for these the positive silver linings uh that was probably that the the tightest team that i've been on as far as uh like tactically extremely sharp everyone knew exactly what they were doing what the next guy was doing and we were able to run you know uh unlimited iterations of whatever we wanted and so um if nothing else it was a good it was a good training time yeah
Jack MurphyHOST
Uh, and, and what else was I going to ask you about? So were you there when, uh, Missoula fell and all that?
Alex DekkerGUEST
Uh, so no, not, uh, that was what year was that? 2014 maybe.
Alex DekkerGUEST
I don't think so.
Alex DekkerGUEST
I don't remember what I remember when.
Alex DekkerGUEST
Yeah,
Jack MurphyHOST
because, yeah, Missoula went and then they were moving on her bill.
Jack MurphyHOST
And that's when I think the administration finally was like, OK, we have to get involved in this reluctantly.
Beatrice HeuserGUEST
And in fact, what we've seen is that cities have been bombed.
Beatrice HeuserGUEST
And you can think, for example, about the siege by the Assad regime of Mosul in Syria.
Beatrice HeuserGUEST
They were bombed into submission and the townsfolk treated awfully badly simply because they resisted.
Beatrice HeuserGUEST
And there's this unwritten rule that seems to be followed.
Aaron HaleHOST
And there's centuries of hate.
Aaron HaleHOST
So they come into, where was that, Mosul?
Fred DummarGUEST
Mosul,
Aaron HaleHOST
yeah.
Aaron HaleHOST
And now they have the city.
Fred DummarGUEST
interests.
Fred DummarGUEST
I have to help you.
Fred DummarGUEST
And then the greater moral issue, right? And when my commander wanted to do that, right, he wanted to roll down the streets of Mosul and get some payback.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
It was a never-ending parallel discussion of the U.S. has done this, so maybe we let the Israelis get away with this.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
It was often the folks who other officials described to me as kind of Israel's lawyers inside the policy circles would say, well, how can we question the Israelis when we did Mosul, when these were...
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
When we did Fallujah, right? But there's a whole other school of American policymakers who've come out and said, yes, and let's learn from Mosul.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
Let's learn from Fallujah.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
Let's not rip apart these societies so that we are coming back, you know, invading Iraq, then having al-Qaeda in Iraq, then having ISIS, and then having the resurgence of ISIS.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Mushushu means fearsome or savage snake and is a dragon but has parts of other animals as well, as evidenced by its Neo-Assyrian period depiction in relief on a stone slab that was located in the North Palace in Nineveh, where it was depicted as having the body of a snake, the front legs of a lion, and the back legs of an eagle.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Nineveh was located in what is now Mosul, Iraq.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Though the use of Mushusu on the gate at the North Palace at Nineveh was as late as the 7th century BCE, the use of Mushusu as a charm or emblem to guard against or ward off enemies had been used since at least the 22nd century BCE.
Katherine GoshenHOST
For example, Gudea was one of many rulers who came to rule the various independent city-states in southern Mesopotamia after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
Chris WallaceMODERATOR
Let's please continue the debate and let's move on to the subject of foreign hotspots.
Chris WallaceMODERATOR
The Iraqi offensive to take back Mosul has begun.
Chris WallaceMODERATOR
If they are successful in pushing ISIS out of that city and out of all of Iraq, the question then becomes, what happens the day after? And that's something that whichever of you ends up, whoever of you ends up as president is going to have to confront.
Chris WallaceMODERATOR
Will you put U.S. troops into that vacuum to make sure that ISIS doesn't come back or isn't replaced by something even worse? Secretary Clinton, you go first in this segment.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
I don't think that is in our interests, and I don't think that would be smart to do.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
In fact, Chris, I think that would be a big red flag waving for ISIS to reconstitute itself.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
The goal here is to take back Mosul.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
It's going to be a hard fight.
Evan BuckHOST
I say now obligatorily because I'm on the show, our timeline, even though we're not changing anything about that in this timeline, but I feel like I still have to say it.
Evan BuckHOST
But Cyrus, what he did was when he took over and conquered the Babylonians and conquered Babylon, which, importantly enough, is in modern-day northern Iraq, kind of around the Mosul area-ish, he Cyrus the Great, what he does is he basically frees the Jews that were in captivity, the Babylonian captivity.
Evan BuckHOST
You know, look at the book of Nehemiah and Ezra in the Bible to kind of get a better understanding of this.
Evan BuckHOST
But, you know, he allows a small remnant of the Jewish people to go back and rebuild Jerusalem.
David FrumGUEST
I hope people will watch it.
David FrumGUEST
We have a very powerful podcast today with a man named Omar Muhammad, who was a trained professional historian who stayed in Mosul under the ISIS occupation and risked his life to tell that story.
David FrumGUEST
I admit, I'm quite baffled by Israeli elections.
David FrumGUEST
I mean, it often seems like the voters vote, and that's just a suggestion to the political system, because the real work is the negotiating that happens after the voters vote.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Mushushu means fearsome or savage snake and is a dragon but has parts of other animals as well, as evidenced by its Neo-Assyrian period depiction in relief on a stone slab that was located in the North Palace in Nineveh, where it was depicted as having the body of a snake, the front legs of a lion, and the back legs of an eagle.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Nineveh was located in what is now Mosul, Iraq.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Though the use of Mushusu on the gate at the North Palace at Nineveh was as late as the 7th century BCE, the use of Mushusu as a charm or emblem to guard against or ward off enemies had been used since at least the 22nd century BCE.
Katherine GoshenHOST
For example, Gudea was one of many rulers who came to rule the various independent city-states in southern Mesopotamia after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
ErskineHOST
You said in 2001, the Taliban, they blew up Buddhist statues because it was sacrilegious to Islam.
ErskineHOST
2005, ISIS museum in Mosul, Iraq destroyed pre-Islamic statues, also sacrilegious to Islam.
ErskineHOST
You don't destroy history.
ErskineHOST
by just blowing up statues.
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