Lawfare Archive: Biden Announces a Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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From April 16, 2021: On Wednesday, President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, an announcement that comes as the U.S. and Afghan governments have been trying to reach a power sharing agreement with the Taliban. Prior to the withdrawal announcement, Bryce Klehm spoke with Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a New York Times correspondent based in the Kabul bureau and a former Marine infantryman, who walked us through the situation on the ground in Afghanistan over the last year. Following Biden's announcement, Bryce spoke with Madiha Afzal, the David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, who talked about the broader implications of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In May 2022, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo will debut their latest podcast, Allies, a series about America’s eyes and ears over 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Thousands of Afghans who worked with the American soldiers as translators, interpreters and partners made it onto U.S. military planes. But despite the decades-long efforts of veterans, lawmakers and senior leaders in the military, even more were left behind. This show will take you from the frontlines of the war to the halls of Congress to find out: How did this happen? Learn more and subscribe to Allies at https://pod.link/1619035873.

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1:02.6	This is the LawFair Archive.
1:18.4	I'm Katherine Pompiliot with an episode from the LawFair Archive for May 14, 2022.
1:24.6	LawFair recently announced its new podcast series entitled Allies.
1:28.6	The series from LawFair's Bryce Clem and the team at Goat Roadio DC tells the 20-year
1:33.4	story of how the US failed its eyes and ears, its translators, interpreters, and other
1:38.6	local partners that were on the ground in Afghanistan.
1:42.5	For today's Archive episode, I picked an episode from April 2021.
1:46.9	In the episode, Bryce Clem is joined by Thomas Gibbons-Nef and Medea Offsell to discuss
1:51.9	President Biden's decision to withdraw American military personnel from Afghanistan.
1:56.7	They spoke about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan prior to US withdrawal and
2:00.9	the broader implications of Biden's decision.
2:03.8	But first, here's a trailer for Allies, which premieres Monday, May 16, 2022.
2:10.2	You can subscribe to Allies at a link in the episode description.
2:18.1	The withdrawal from Afghanistan ended in chaos at an airfield in Kabul.
2:22.8	But despite the efforts of veterans, lawmakers, and senior leaders in the military, even more
2:28.5	were left behind.
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