1/19/22 Zaher Wahab: Afghanistan is Starving and Nobody Cares

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews Zaher Wahab of the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education about the economic catastrophe taking place in Afghanistan. Although the U.S. Government claimed it was working to develop Afghanistan, Wahab explains that what it really did was prop the country’s economy up until it left. Now, in the midst of the collapse, the people of Afghanistan are starving. And the American hawks and pundits, who only four months ago were screaming about the wellbeing of Afghan civilians, now don’t seem to have a care in the world for them. Wahab fills us in on this situation, its causes and what needs to change. Discussed on the show: “The Afghanistan Papers” (Washington Post) Zaher Wahab is a Professor Emeritus at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education. He was a senior advisor to the education ministry in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006. He then taught at the American University of Afghanistan until 2019. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.2	the education ministry in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006. Welcome the show.
1:01.5	How are you doing, sir?
1:11.0	Fine, and taught at the American University of Afghanistan from 2013 until the end of 2019. Oh, okay, great.
1:13.2	All right.
1:13.8	So, you know, our friend Sam Hussein
1:17.2	put out this great press release about your criticism essentially of current American policy towards Afghanistan in the midst of their drought and humanitarian crisis this winter and your plan to fix it.
1:30.9	So first of all, I mean there's so much to tackle here but go ahead and
1:35.9	give us if you could something like a thumbnail sketch of what you think we need to
1:40.9	understand has been happening in Afghanistan since the end of the American occupation
1:46.2	and the beginning of Taliban rule there at the end of last summer, please, sir.
1:50.6	Okay, well Scott, I don't know if you happen to watch the PBS last night because it was a very
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