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Time to End the War on Terrorism & Panic Over a Multipolar World w/ Scott Horton

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6814 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Scott Horton is the editor of Antiwar.com and the author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. Scott speaks to Abby and Robbie Martin about the missing context behind the end to the US occupation of Afghanistan as well as the larger War on Terror, including Yemen, China and more. Intro/outro music: Thee Source ov Fawnation - Isle [Unreleased] Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to an exclusive bonus episode per month. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/scotthortonshow

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What this is you

0:03.0

What this you me want to be inside the sea like this. The last plane carrying U.S. military forces left Afghanistan today, meeting the

0:43.9

August 31st deadline, Biden said to close out the 20-year-long brutal war and occupation.

0:50.9

U.S. personnel also blew up the last CIA base in Kabul on their way out.

0:57.0

Total chaos ensued since the Taliban gained control of Kabul on August 15th,

1:02.6

where horrifying scenes like people falling off aircraft and soldiers unloading into crowds

1:08.4

have defined Biden's mad scramble to evacuate Americans and token

1:12.7

Afghans who helped the U.S. And just days ago, a devastating suicide bombing carried out by

1:20.1

ISIS-K left over 100 people dead, including 20 Taliban members and 13 U.S. soldiers.

1:28.2

The official death toll from the blast is yet to be determined.

1:32.1

But shockingly, witnesses say that many killed were actually shot by U.S. forces who panicked

1:39.6

and started shooting into the crowd.

1:43.3

For those who carried out this attack,

1:46.0

as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this.

1:52.0

We will not forgive.

1:55.0

We will not forget.

1:58.0

We will hunt you down and make you pay.

2:03.3

Biden's promise to carry out revenge for the attack resulted in a drone strike in a

2:09.1

residential neighborhood that wiped out 10 members of the same family, including seven

2:14.6

children. Countless lives extinguished needlessly because of the U.S.

2:21.3

Empire's imperial hubris to maintain a 20-year criminal war that never should have been launched

2:27.4

in the first place. While no one better to discuss everything that's going on in Afghanistan

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