The lessons we should learn from Afghanistan
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben cover the latest news from Afghanistan, including an update on the evacuation efforts, the threat from ISIS, the coming US political fight over refugees, the media coverage of the war and what lessons they hope that the country will learn from it. They also explain why the Vice President’s trip to Asia was temporarily delayed by reports of “Havana Syndrome” in Vietnam, and discuss updates on the earthquake in Haiti. Then Tommy is joined by Ali Latifi, Al Jazeera English’s online correspondent in Kabul, to discuss what life is like in Kabul a little more than a week after the Taliban takeover.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome back to Pots' Day of the World. I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.9 | And someone on Twitter made fun of me for welcoming listeners back. |
| 0:17.7 | Maybe it's just presumptuous that they've heard it before. |
| 0:20.6 | I'd like to make them think they're welcome. |
| 0:23.2 | I want them to be welcome. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, I want them to feel good about being here. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah, well, you know what? |
| 0:26.3 | Glad you guys were here. |
| 0:27.2 | Everybody is listening. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah. Welcome. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.6 | First timers, long timers. |
| 0:30.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.5 | You're all welcome here. |
| 0:33.1 | This is a show about foreign policy. |
| 0:34.6 | We're going to talk a lot about the situation in Afghanistan. |
| 0:38.3 | Again, this week, we did almost, I think we did the whole show on it last week. |
| 0:42.2 | Talk about the latest in the evacuation effort, the threat from ISIS, |
| 0:46.2 | the coming fight over refugees, and the broader media conversation about the withdrawal. |
| 0:51.1 | And you know, what lessons we hope the country is taking away from 20 years of war |
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