Hi there. This is Lawrence Krauss with the Origins Podcast. And earlier today, I recorded a video with

Noam Chomsky. About a month ago, Noam and I recorded several videos about

current events, and one of them involved what turned out to be very prescient predictions by

Noam about Afghanistan if the United States continued to withdraw its forces precipitously.

And his discussion was not only prescient, but I think very important.

And a lot of people have written to me about it and have watched it again.

And I thought it would be a nice idea to have an update from Noam as we talk about current events in Afghanistan.

And so that's what we did today.

And I'm happy to be able to present it here today.

I think the most important point that Nome made is that we, once again,

we really need to think about what's best for the Afghan people.

And that's often not discussed when one talks about the consequences of

of this withdrawal of course people talk about the Taliban rule and and

rights individual human rights women's rights etc but but he made a very important

point I thought about the fact that when taught one talks about the toll of the 20 years war,

and one reads what's written about in most American papers,

the toll seems to be mostly discussed the number of American service people who were killed in that war,

and that invasion and the subsequent war.

And, of course, it's tragic that they lost their lives.

But the fact that the Afghan people, many of them died and suffered in the process,

is worth remembering, and it's worth remembering what we can do as a country now,

in spite of a regime which most of us find rather despicable, what can we do to try and ensure that

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