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101 - Nicholas Grossman - The Crisis in Afghanistan [Public Limited Version]
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English - August 29, 2021 14:02 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nicholas’s book, Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security (2018) can be found here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/drones-and-terrorism-9781838608439/
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For more relevant writing by Nicholas, see the following articles:
https://www.arcdigital.media/p/every-option-in-afghanistan-was-bad
https://medium.com/arc-digital/americas-predictable-avoidable-unnecessary-syrian-disaster-f0e1292e9449
https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/trump-cancels-drone-strike-civilian-casualty-report-does-it-matter/
https://medium.com/arc-digital/el-paso-was-terrorism-dayton-wasnt-and-why-that-matters-9b01a2ed2d94
https://medium.com/arc-digital/the-forever-war-keeps-going-76844f9ae16e
https://medium.com/arc-digital/qanon-woke-up-the-real-deep-state-72bbfcb79488
Follow Nicholas on Twitter: @Ngrossman81
Timestamps
0:56 Intro
3:08 Background to the situation; Trump’s handling of the withdrawal from Syria
7:48 Have the Taliban reneged on their agreement with Trump
8:59 The nature of the US presence in Afghanistan
18:08 20 years of at least some Afghans having a freer life; treatment of women in Afghanistan
21:00 What is your explanation for the evacuation flights being mostly men?
28:08 The connections between the Taliban and Al Qaeda
35:49 The Taliban is not simply "local culture"!; but what extent are the Taliban aided by local sympathisers?
44:52 More on the withdrawal; why weren’t people working with the west taken out earlier?
53:58 What are your viewpoints on reluctance to issue visas to Afghans
1:06:51 Thought on US withdrawing from everywhere possible; did the US create the Taliban?
1:16:29 What is your sense of the short and medium term future of Afghanistan?