The graveyard of empires, a second Vietnam - Timothy Nunan on the cliches of the war in Afghanistan
Politics Theory Other
Politics Theory Other
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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success. |
| 0:05.0 | The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to |
| 0:21.6 | I'm going to |
| 0:23.6 | the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:49.9 | My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Timothy Noonan. |
| 0:53.1 | We talked about the current situation |
| 0:54.5 | in Afghanistan, the refugee crisis in the country and also the US media discussion around |
| 0:59.5 | the American withdrawal, and what descriptions of Afghanistan as a graveyard of empires or a second |
| 1:04.8 | Vietnam obscures regarding the history of the country in the 20th and 21st centuries. |
| 1:11.2 | Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books, |
| 1:16.2 | who have lots of excellent titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners. |
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| 1:27.0 | A landmark text of visionary feminist thinking, |
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| 1:49.6 | publish each month in ebook format with options to also receive the books in the post. |
| 1:55.7 | And now to today's interview. Timothy Noonan is a lecturer in the Department of Global History |
| 2:00.5 | at the Free University |
| 2:01.8 | of Berlin, where he leads a research group devoted to the history of Islamism during the Cold War. |
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