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Gaslit Nation

Hold Onto Your Humanity

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We break down myths about "the unvaccinated" vs the anti-vaxxer propagandists and discuss the institutional distrust that have made a diverse crowd of Americans hesitant about the vaccine. We go through twenty years of horrific policy decisions that enabled a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, wasted trillions of tax dollars, and led to war crimes and tens of thousands of Afghan civilian casualties. And we end with hopeful words from our December 2019 interview with Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

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I do wonder what message you have to the international community, especially the Americans,

0:04.5

the EU, other stakeholders who have been in Afghanistan for the past 20 years and have now

0:10.0

cut and run.

0:11.0

What do you want to say to those world leaders right now?

0:13.0

To those world leaders, I'm going to say really shame on you.

0:17.0

I'm going to say to the whole world's shame on you.

0:20.0

For what you did to Afghanistan. Why

0:22.4

did you have to do what you did? And why are doing this to this part of the world? I don't

0:26.6

get it. I mean, are you using all of us? Are we being just a pawns in your hands? Is that

0:32.6

what it is? I don't understand it. But I really, really, you know, the fact that we don't have any hopes from you and the

0:39.8

fact that I really, I don't even want to talk to you at all because the talking time is

0:44.7

over.

0:45.7

We talked to you, we demanded, we asked, we did everything and nobody paid any attention.

0:53.6

They just made decisions with their gut feelings

0:56.5

or whatever, all of these men of the world that they are in power and they are destroying

1:02.1

what's something that we worked so hard for. What is happening in Afghanistan today is going

1:07.0

to put this country 200 years back. Again, and how are we going to do that? Again, for me, I'm not going to see anything good about this generation. I'm going to be gone. I won't even see my country doing what it's supposed to be doing. Not only me, but a whole lot of other people. Even for the young generation, what are we going to do? Now there's going to be an exodus of the Afghans again leaving this country. So what are we going to do? We are going

1:31.8

to sit again and fight again and lose again and then make another generation and then for the

1:38.0

world to make another stupid decision and destroy us all. and destroying soul.

1:52.0

I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books,

1:54.9

The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

1:58.2

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker,

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