paul, for you watching events this time last year, watching the cataclysm in in carbal, what were your thoughts. iad never covered afghanistan and never specialized in central asiaor the at least a but i got ed into it. And by sheer accident, because i've got the email here, 20 third of june last year, ad from my friend who has run an afgan n go after 13 years of incredible struggle. Many of my closest friends are are in the process of breaking we are currently trying to get some of them ot of the country. And weare powerless and overwhelmed. So that's not july, and it's not early august
One year ago the United States decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades in the country. The Taliban, a militant Islamist group that ran most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, swept to power without much resistance from the Afghan army and captured Kabul on August 15 2021. The debacle left Western governments humiliated and ordinary Afghans afraid. What responsibility do countries like Britain and the United States have for the current crisis? To discuss these issues our host the journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana is joined by Shabnam Nasimi, Policy Advisor to the U.K Home Office, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, and Paul Mason, the journalist, writer and film-maker.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices