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Angry Planet

The View From Kabul

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Afghanistan, the site of America’s longest war, is changing. The Taliban is gaining ground in the North while peace talks stall. The U.S. continues its withdrawal and the Afghan military is left to pick up the pieces.

Here to help us understand what’s going on is Ali M. Latifi.


Latifi is an Afghan journalist living in Kabul. His work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Business Insider, and NBC News.

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When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with impunity and when it is near to come back in this country almost with impunity and when it is near to completion

0:35.0

to talk about intervention.

0:37.0

You don't get freedom peaceful.

0:45.0

Freedom is never safeguarded people.

0:49.0

Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach. Hello and welcome to Angry Planet. I am your host Matthew Galt. Afghanistan, the site of America's longest war, is changing.

1:15.2

The Taliban is getting ground in the north while peace talks stall, the US continues its

1:19.6

withdrawal in the Afghan military is left to pick up the pieces.

1:23.0

Here to help us understand what's going on is Ali M Latifi.

1:27.0

Latifi is an Afghan journalist living in Kabul.

1:30.0

His work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Business Insider, and in BC.

1:35.0

Allie, thank you so much for joining us.

1:37.0

Welcome.

1:38.0

Thank you for having me.

1:40.0

All right, so the big story that's going around here in the west, kind of in the past 24 hours,

1:45.3

is this report from the AP about the US troops leaving Bagram Air Field in the middle of the night

1:50.9

without alerting the Afghan commander who's going to be taking it over.

1:54.4

And there's been, you know, kind of a lot of sharing of the story and talking about talking about it,

2:00.8

but I think it undercuts the reality of the situation where America has been pretty, it's my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, that America has been pretty hands off for a bit now.

2:14.0

The media has kind of turned its attention to Afghanistan

2:18.0

as this deadline of September 11th that Biden set kind of creeps up. Do you think that from your

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