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March 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Press TV has conducted an interview with Conn Hallinan of Foreign Policy in Focus in Berkeley to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Why come to the conclusion of the war being wrong after such a long time?
Hallinan: I think the major reason is because when one looks at the situation right now in Afghanistan – you’ve just finished these countrywide riots over the burning of the Qur’an, you’ve had a big step up in the number of Afghan police and Afghan troops who have turned their guns on the French, British and the Americans – the situation looks as if it’s headed for sort of a collapse.
This is the situation right now and this is after 10 years – it’s the longest war that the United States has ever been engaged in.
And the idea that after 10 years of war, we’re in a situation that we can’t even control the streets, and what we’re looking for is the quickest way out of there – it looks and smells like a defeat!
And I think the British ambassador was being straight forward and honest.
Press TV: Day by day, we are seeing retired generals somehow confessing the mistake of the war. How does this resonate with both the armed forces and the public opinion?
Hallinan: You know, in many ways this war has been a war which has been kept off of the front pages and off of the television. It’s not a widely televised war like the Vietnam War. There isn’t a draft.
In a way, even though this is a very long war, it’s not had a major impact on most people’s consciousness in the United States. Most people are kind of unaware in some ways that the war is going on. Now, that was very deliberately set up in such a way.
I think that what most people, what most of the polls show is that people want out. They are done with the war. In fact, they’d like to move a lot quicker than 2014. They’d like to be out sometime in the next year. I think they’ve sort of had-it with it. They see it as an enormous financial drain.
But it doesn’t have a big impact on their daily lives. And so for that reason, there isn’t a lot of deep and powerful sentiment against the war in this country, it’s much more a kind of apathy. It’s a disturbing kind of attitude to have after the longest war we’ve ever been engaged in.
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