Lawfare Archive: Allies, Episode 1: Faithful and Valuable Service

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From May 16, 2022: In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning, just before the U.S. invasion. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan. After a military invasion that fall, people up and down the chain of command learned that in order to fight this war the U.S. needed local partners to help.

Allies is a podcast about America’s eyes and ears over 20 years of war in Afghanistan. This show will take you from the frontlines of the war to the halls of Congress to find out: How did this happen?

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains advertising.
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0:16.4	slash Lawfair. Also check out Lawfair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, lawfare with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for March 23rd,
0:45.8	2024.
0:46.8	On March 21st, Congress released a massive $1.2 trillion spending package that aims to provide money for hundreds of
0:53.9	programs specifically boosting the military budget while maintaining non-defense
0:58.4	funding at the current levels. Included in the spending package is 12,000 new special immigrant visas as part of the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Afghan nationals who assisted the United States during the war.
1:10.0	For today's archive episode, the team at Lfare chose to air the first episode of Allies, a
1:15.9	podcast series that takes listeners through the 10-year effort by the US to protect Afghan
1:21.0	interpreters, translators, and other partners through the Special Immigrant Visa Program.
1:25.6	The first episode entitled Faithful and Valuable Service begins just after 9-11 and before
1:30.5	the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and tells the story of how the US
1:34.2	acquired its eyes and ears in the country.
1:37.4	This is Allies. A warning for listeners for listeners. This podcast features stories about war, terrorism, and violence.
1:52.0	It's important to hear, but it can also be disturbing.
1:56.2	After two decades, the U.S. was getting out.
1:59.9	President Trump had negotiated a deal with the Taliban promising a departure of U.S. troops.
2:07.0	In spring 2021, President Joe Biden let the whole world know that he wasn't reversing course. American troops would be out of
2:15.1	Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9-11. I'm now the fourth United States
2:21.4	president to preside over American troop presence in
2:24.4	Afghanistan. I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth. After
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