Lawfare Archive: Allies: Faithful and Valuable Service
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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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 US needed local partners to help.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
| 0:07.2 | podcast become a material supporter of LawFair at patreon.com slash LawFair, that's patreon.com slash |
| 0:16.8 | LawFair. Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm GeoCocotocus, intern at LawFair. This Wednesday marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. |
| 0:45.6 | military withdrawal from Afghanistan, officially ending the United States 20-year-long military |
| 0:50.9 | occupation of the country. For this week's Archive episode, the LawFair team brings you |
| 0:55.8 | the first episode of Allies, one of our narrative podcast series on how the chaotic withdrawal |
| 1:01.0 | came to be, from the front lines of the war to the halls of Congress. The first episode, |
| 1:06.9 | entitled Faithful and Valuable Service, tells the story of how the U.S. invasion began, starting |
| 1:12.7 | with the events directly following the 9-11 terrorist attack. |
| 1:20.9 | A warning for listeners. This podcast features stories about war, terrorism, and violence. Support |
| 1:32.5 | to hear, but it can also be disturbing. After two decades, the U.S. was getting out. President |
| 1:40.3 | Trump had negotiated a deal with the Taliban promising a departure of U.S. troops. In spring |
| 1:47.2 | 2021, President Joe Biden let the whole world know that he wasn't reversing course. American |
| 1:53.9 | troops would be out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9-11. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm now the fourth United States President to preside over American troop presence in Afghanistan. |
| 2:05.3 | I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth. After consulting closely with our allies |
| 2:12.3 | and partners, I concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops |
| 2:18.8 | to come home. Journalist Matthew Akins was covering the withdrawal for the New York Times. |
| 2:29.7 | He had been reporting from Afghanistan since 2008. He says, with the Americans leaving, |
| 2:35.9 | nearly every Afghan he talked to had no clue what was in store for them. |
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