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#AFGHANISTAN: Back to the savagery of the 1990s. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

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#AFGHANISTAN: Back to the savagery of the 1990s. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-new-taliban-same-as-the-old-taliban-middle-east-terrorism-pakistan-afghanistan-d8b8483b

1890 Afghanistan

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

0:23.0

Wish you were here.

0:24.0

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0:30.0

This is CBS, I am the world.

0:32.0

I'm John Batchelor, welcoming Sudden-Andoumee of the American Enterprise

0:36.1

Institute, he writes for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, turning to Afghanistan.

0:41.8

Since August of 2021, you will understand. to Afghanistan is

0:45.0

is moved into non-transperancy, a darkness in Eurasia,

0:51.0

a question of the Taliban being a responsible governance is set aside. What do we

0:58.0

know very little because we do not have eyes and ears inside. However, Saturnan has talked to a man who is outside looking at

1:07.9

Afghanistan, a former Afghan deputy defense minister, his name is Tameem Assay.

1:15.5

Saturn on, a very good evening to you.

1:17.8

The former Afghan Deputy Defense Minister

1:21.1

I learned from your column now,

1:22.2

heads the Institute of War and Peace

1:24.0

Studies.

1:25.1

What did you learn from him about what's going on inside this darkness visible called

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