Scott Horton on the Endless War in Afghanistan

Guest Scott Horton has released an important new book - April Fool's Day. It is time to end the war in Afghanistan. This is the ultimate treatment of the war itself, the history and factions involved, and uneasy policy thinking that brought this very unpopular confrontation. Do not miss an interview with one of the major anti-war liberals of our time.

In the first story, Afghanistan is a country of infinite war, subject to targeted assassination and increasing destruction of suicide bombers. Three Czech soldiers were murdered this week in Afghanistan and were killed by a suicide bomber while regular patrols by the Afghan army. The news arrived shortly after Czech parliamentarians agreed to send more troops to Afghanistan. The loss in the Czech Republic occurred in the case of the death of two American soldiers who died within the last month last month. All of these are faced with an amazing rate of casualties - the Afghan army fighting and dying for their country. Between January and November 2016, nearly 7,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers were killed. According to the Afghan government, from January 2017 to the beginning of May, Afghan security forces and 2,531 service personnel of the defense army were killed.

Guest Scott Horton has released an important new book - April Fool's Day. It is time to end the war in Afghanistan. This is the ultimate treatment of the war itself, the history and factions involved, and uneasy policy thinking that brought this very unpopular confrontation. Do not miss an interview with one of the major anti-war liberals of our time.

• The Soviet Afghanistan War (1979-1989) was an intergovernmental war involving the Soviet Union during the Cold War, supporting the guerrilla movement against Afghanistan's Jihadism by the Marxist government in Afghanistan. Mujahedeen received secret support from the United States and other countries. Thousands of people were murdered and injured in the Soviet Union. It ruined the Afghan government and the infrastructure. • Thich Quang Duc is a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who protested against Buddhist persecution of the Roman Catholic government in the southern part of Vietnam (self-destruction) on June 11, 1963 at the intersection of Saigon. He was reemployed after his death, but his heart was not destroyed, he finally built a monument where he died.