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S3 E2. Red Pill, Part II – Blind Ambitions
Democracy in Danger
English - September 15, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes - 96.3 MBSociety & Culture News Politics democracy election history illiberalism media news politics unitedstates world Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: S3 E1 – Red Pill – Part I: The Terrible War
Next Episode: S3 E3. Red Pill, Part III – Haiti, Interrupted
It’s hard not to see shades of Saigon in the frenetic evacuation of Kabul last month — and wonder why U.S. leaders seem not to have learned from bungled foreign wars and nation-building efforts. In this second part of a series reflecting on the debacle in Afghanistan, Will and Siva speak with two historians of the post-Vietnam era. They shed light on the grandiose and self-interested visions America has tried to realize abroad and ask what hope there may be for a future of soft power and humanitarian goals.