Hospital Bombing Is a Wake-up Call for Afghanistan
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this, the fourteenth anniversary of America's invasion of Afghanistan, a resurgent Taliban is challenging President Obama's plan to withdraw US forces by the end of next year. Many Afghans have lost all hope, and this weekend's attack on a hospital has compromised US credibility. We look at this week's deadly airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz and America's long role in Afghanistan.
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| 0:26.0 | The U.S. in Afghanistan and the rules of war. |
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| 0:36.7 | On a daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. The U.S. admits it ordered deadly |
| 0:41.0 | airstrikes on a hospital in Afghanistan but calls it a mistake, not a war crime, as claimed |
| 0:46.3 | by doctors without borders. The incident has dramatized the resurgence of the Taliban, |
| 0:51.0 | potentially upsetting U.S. plans to withdraw almost completely by the end of next year. |
| 0:56.5 | The city of Kunduz, where the attack occurred, is now a shambles. |
| 0:59.9 | Tens of thousands of Afghans are desperate to leave their country. |
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