Whatever shape the new government in Afghanistan takes, one thing is certain.

Right now, all of its assets and financial resources from outside the country have been frozen or seized.

How will this impact the calculations of the Taliban and what will the effect be on millions of people in

Afghanistan as they emerge from decades of war?

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded

impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the real story segment of the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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slash the socialist program. Today we'll be talking to Anne Wright.

Anne is a retired United States Army Colonel

and a former US State Department official in Afghanistan.

She resigned in protest from the State Department

over the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and is today both a journalist

and an activist fighting against war. And Wright, welcome to the Socialist Program.

Thank you, Brian. Pleasure to be with you. Thank you so much. We want to have your insights, especially, Ann, because while you're now an anti-war

activist, you were a longtime U.S. government official. You're a colonel in the U.S. military,

and you were in Afghanistan. In fact, you recently wrote an article which people can read by going to the

website Popular Resistance.

I want to read the first sentence to you and to the audience.

I was on, that's you, I was on the small U.S. Department of State Team that reopened the U.S.

Embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and strongly feel that the U.S. embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and strongly feel that the

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