Welcome to the Origins Podcast and the Origins Project Foundation.

I'm your host here, Lawrence Krause.

And I want to introduce what may be a new continuing series, which is really goes back to one of our first guests and one of our most popular podcasts with none other than Noam Chomsky.

I asked Noam if we could periodically update our discussion by talking about current events.

So here you go, current events with Noam Chomsky, removal of troops from Afghanistan on September 11th,

2021 that Biden's talking about, which,

which at least the press is saying was done against the recommendations of military leaders.

What do you make of that?

Well, my view infuriates most of my friends.

I think before undertaking precipitous withdrawal,

which take into account the opinion of Afghans.

Wow.

We invaded in 2001 against the strong opposition of the major Afghan resistance movement.

They were bitterly opposed to the invasion.

The leading figure of the Huck, later killed, most respected, sharply condemned the Bush's invasion. He said, it's going to kill plenty of Afghans.

You're doing it without any concern for Afghans. You want to show your muscle, make sure

everybody's afraid of you. It's going to undermine our efforts to overthrow the Taliban from within, which is what we're slowly achieving,

but you just want to show your muscle.

It was a brutal, murderous invasion had a devastating effect on Afghanistan.

They want to get rid of al-Qaeda, small police action, probably with the cooperation of the Taliban,

would have worked. The Taliban wanted to get rid of them. That would have done it. But that way,

you don't show your muscle and frighten everybody. Afghans turned into a wreck. It was a wreck before.

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