Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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What's Joe Byden's Roll in This Epic M All Along?
How does the machine just keep going for two decades? How does it not get stopped and we end up where we are now? I think what, what was so gallingly obvious was that everyone in the us. Government knew exactly what we're talking about here. They knew th they knew that the afghan government was predatory. And i guess ultimately it was a lack of political willi It seems interesting, or ironic, that one of the major american politicians who, earlier a we'd get up in meetings of the in the situation room and say, we don't have a possibility of victory here is joe byden, the person on whom the burden of the withdrawal falls.
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