Hi listeners, this is Natalie Orpet, executive editor of Law Fair and host of the aftermath.

We're hard at work on the next episode of the aftermath.

While we're preparing it, we thought we would bring you another production by Law Fair

and Goat Roadio, which we released earlier this year.

August 15th is the one year anniversary of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

So on that day, we'll be bringing you Law Fair Presents, Allies.

For the course of seven episodes, all of which will drop on the anniversary,

Allies tells the story of the US War in Afghanistan through the eyes of the translators,

interpreters, and partners who fought alongside the US and how we left them behind.

We hope you'll enjoy Allies.

We'll be back in a few weeks with a new episode of the aftermath.

After 20 years of war, the US was getting out of Afghanistan.

After consulting closely with our allies and partners, I've concluded that it's time

to end America's longest war.

It's time for American troops to come home.

There are scenes of panic and pandemonium at Kabul Airport today as desperate people

pour onto the runway trying to flee the country.

Talking scenes of desperation in chaos in Afghanistan are being seen around the world.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan ended in chaos at an airfield in Kabul.

In the face of that mayhem, the military got thousands of Afghans who worked with the

US out.

But despite the efforts of veterans, lawmakers, and senior leaders in the military, even

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