No, We Weren't There to Bring Democracy

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Today's podcast tries again to take up the ludicrous argument that our purpose in Afghanistan was to install a liberal democracy. We also talk about the labor shortage and the end of the eviction moratorium. And are movie theaters too loud? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, August 30th, 2021.
0:29.4	I'm John Puthwords, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor,
0:34.3	a Greenwald Hyag.
0:35.3	Hedgehog.
0:36.3	Senior writer, Christine Rosemite, Christine.
0:38.1	Hyagion.
0:40.1	Associate editor, Noah Rossman-Hinella.
0:42.4	Hyagion.
0:43.3	So, today, tomorrow, Mark will mark the conclusion of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan
0:53.3	supposedly.
0:54.3	I don't really believe it will.
0:56.5	I mean, it may nominally and then we'll have to go back in and out and in and out in
1:01.1	whatever way that means anything.
1:04.9	We don't even know, but we will be in the bizarre position of having our military officially
1:13.6	removed while Americans and people who have the right to be in America are left stranded
1:24.0	in Afghanistan.
1:25.2	Do I have that correct?
1:27.2	Just say that's a fair description.
1:29.6	Okay.
1:30.6	Yeah.
1:31.6	I mean, we don't, they just beat the numbers.
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