Wilkerson on Afghanistan
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, gives us his thoroughly unvarnished take on the history of our twenty-year debacle in Afghanistan. Then, we are joined by Jacob Wilson, cofounder of Congressional Progressive Staff Association an organization devoted to drawing congressional staff from the ranks of civic activists, organizers, faith leaders, and people from the labor movement in order to bring fresh, bold, progressive ideas directly into Congress members’ offices.
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| 0:10.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:15.4 | My name is Steve Sproban along with my co-host, |
| 0:17.8 | David Feldman. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello, David. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, good morning. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:21.6 | And we also welcome the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:27.0 | First on today's show, we're going to return |
| 0:30.4 | to the topic of Afghanistan. |
| 0:32.6 | The United States spent 20 years trying |
| 0:34.9 | to remake Afghanistan's government and military |
| 0:38.4 | in our own image. |
| 0:39.5 | Billions of dollars and thousands of deaths later, |
| 0:42.8 | the US has finally withdrawn its troops. |
| 0:45.7 | We've left the people of Afghanistan |
| 0:47.4 | to fend for themselves and the nation we, quote, unquote, |
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