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🗓️ 12 August 2022
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0:00.0 | Hi listeners, this is Natalie Orpet, executive editor of Law Fair and host of the aftermath. |
0:06.8 | We're hard at work on the next episode of the aftermath. |
0:10.0 | While we're preparing it, we thought we would bring you another production by Law Fair |
0:13.7 | and Goat Roadio, which we released earlier this year. |
0:17.6 | August 15th is the one year anniversary of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. |
0:22.9 | So on that day, we'll be bringing you Law Fair Presents, Allies. |
0:27.9 | For the course of seven episodes, all of which will drop on the anniversary, |
0:32.1 | Allies tells the story of the US War in Afghanistan through the eyes of the translators, |
0:37.8 | interpreters, and partners who fought alongside the US and how we left them behind. |
0:44.2 | We hope you'll enjoy Allies. |
0:46.2 | We'll be back in a few weeks with a new episode of the aftermath. |
0:55.4 | After 20 years of war, the US was getting out of Afghanistan. |
1:00.4 | After consulting closely with our allies and partners, I've concluded that it's time |
1:04.4 | to end America's longest war. |
1:07.3 | It's time for American troops to come home. |
1:10.8 | There are scenes of panic and pandemonium at Kabul Airport today as desperate people |
1:16.0 | pour onto the runway trying to flee the country. |
1:18.7 | Talking scenes of desperation in chaos in Afghanistan are being seen around the world. |
1:25.7 | The withdrawal from Afghanistan ended in chaos at an airfield in Kabul. |
1:31.0 | In the face of that mayhem, the military got thousands of Afghans who worked with the |
1:36.1 | US out. |
1:38.0 | But despite the efforts of veterans, lawmakers, and senior leaders in the military, even |
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