Tonight on the show, we’ll bring you an exclusive interview with Vice President Joe Biden. For now, a couple of bits.
President Obama once famously called the war in Iraq a “dumb war.” Rachel asked Mr. Biden if we’ve learned anything. From the transcript:
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: I think one of the lessons we’ve learned is you can go into an– America is so powerful, has such an incredible military capability, that you can go to– into any dictatorship and you can try to impose … democracy, but it’s gonna take you a trillion dollars and a decade, and you’re gonna have to make a judgment whether or not you had better spent your time and effort doing something else to make the world safer than that.
And this exchange about Afghanistan, which U.S. forces aren’t scheduled to leave until the end of 2014:
MADDOW: Is it possible that that war could end sooner than the American people are already expecting, at this point. Could that be wound down, as well?









