casualty is dead a life long crap or is there a way out i was actually going to bed and i have no wooden reichl to debian from so much. welcome back many u.s. officials have resigned over the global war of terror which has cost american taxpayers more than two trillion dollars and destabilize regions right around the world after the attacks on washington new york sixteen years ago today one of them is an iraq veteran who has worked for the pentagon and the at the state department before resigning over the usas longest war in afghanistan where british troops continue to be deployed multi award winning senior fellow at the center for international policy matthew hoh joins me now from wake forest north carolina matthew thanks for coming back on the show before we go to this longest war this post nine eleven longest war your reaction to. yet another attack on this time on baghdad air base in afghanistan in the past few days well the attacks are in that senior as long as we're there this war and the taliban are tying into that fact that we recently dropped leaflets on to that part of afghanistan nor