Leaving Afghanistan (Pt 1): Our correspondent's diaries from the 20-year war
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
After 20 years of war, is the difficult truth that Nato has lost to the Taliban?
The first of two episodes this week with Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd, as he looks back at Afghanistan's past – and forward to its uncertain future.
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Guest: Anthony Loyd, foreign correspondent, The Times.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Alex Dibble from the Times World in Ten Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Every day, we sit down and go through the stories being broken by our correspondence across the world, and we play you their interviews. |
| 0:12.0 | If he can be assassinated by India, what do they leave me as someone who's just as fun? |
| 0:16.0 | After she was reaped by Epstein, she ran. |
| 0:20.0 | If you struggle to keep up with the news, the world in ten is for you. |
| 0:24.0 | Listen, wherever you get your podcasts, it is ten minutes to stay on top of the world. |
| 0:30.0 | I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. |
| 0:34.0 | It's time for American troops to come home. |
| 0:38.0 | After two decades, Western forces have all but left Afghanistan. |
| 0:44.0 | Has NATO's retreat handed victory to the Taliban? |
| 0:50.0 | There's a possibility of a coming up. |
| 0:54.0 | Has NATO's retreat handed victory to the Taliban? |
| 0:58.0 | There's a possibility of a complete Taliban takeover or a possibility of any number of other scenarios. |
| 1:04.0 | Breakdowns, warlordism, all kinds of other scenarios are out there. |
| 1:08.0 | Momentum appears to be, strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban. |
| 1:12.0 | What legacy will it leave behind? |
| 1:16.0 | People just assume it's all about Taliban. |
| 1:18.0 | It's all about men with bears and it's all about fighting, clashing it off and rocks. |
| 1:22.0 | It's not, it's about an awful lot more than that. |
| 1:26.0 | This week, over two episodes, we're looking at both Afghanistan's past and its uncertain future. |
| 1:34.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times in the Sunday Times. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Manvin Rana. |
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