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It's been a year.

It's been a year since the US left Afghanistan in disarray.

We've spoken to a number of people who've been to Afghanistan

over the years on the show.

That includes journalists who walked into Kabul

with the Taliban the first time in 1996, soldiers who fought in Afghanistan throughout

the war, and more recently a man who was supposed to be fighting corruption, but found

it was worse than a losing battle. Today NPR's Steve Innskip joins us.

He recently visited Afghanistan and spent some time with the Taliban.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, glad to be here.

I was hoping that you could do something none of the other guests have actually been able to do,

which is sort of describe what you see, what you hear, even what you smell when you get to Afghanistan.

If you sort of paid a picture, that would be wonderful.

Yeah, I appreciate the question.

That is the thing that I most want out of international reporting or really any kind of good writing and what I try to do in mind, although people will decide if I succeed or not.

The question of like, what's it like to be there? And particularly

Afghanistan. I am recalling that in 2001 I was sent to Afghanistan for the first time a little bit after the 9-11 attacks,

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