8/12/22 Matthieu Aikins on the Many Problems Facing Afghanistan Today

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Scott interviews journalist and author Matthieu Aikins about life in Afghanistan one year after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Having spent a lot of time in the country, Aikins is able to give a nuanced and detailed account of the problems facing Afghans and how they’re addressing them. He speaks with Scott about the country’s economic problems, rifts within the Taliban and the apparent killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Kabul at the end of July. Discussed on the show: “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” (NYT Magazine) “11 Years After Trying to Kill Each Other, a Marine and a Talib Meet Again” (New York Times) Mathieu Aikins is an international freelance journalist and author of the book The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground. Follow him on Twitter @mattaikins. 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; and Thc Hemp Spot. 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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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. also writes pretty regularly for the New York Times and if you read
0:54.6	fools there and you know I cited him about the election of 2014 he and a
0:59.4	non-Gobel wrote for Harper's all about what a disaster it was. And also he did that great report where he snuck in to
1:07.0	Yemen back during the beginning of the Yemen war and reported from the Sada province and all that.
1:12.0	Remember? great reporter.
1:14.0	And he's got a new book out.
1:16.1	It's called The Naked Don't Fear The Water,
1:19.6	an underground journey with Afghan refugees.
1:23.6	And he's got this really important piece
1:25.3	in the New York Times,
1:26.8	the Taliban's dangerous collision course
1:29.2	with the West.
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