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You've seen the images. There was the massive C-17 cargo plane making its way down the runway at the airport in Kabul. All around it was people running with the plane, with some people even clinging to the side of the plane. All of these people wanted to get out of the country to escape the horrors of the new Taliban government. Some were so desperate that they clung to the plane even as it took off and they fell to their deaths.
Everyone is surprised at how fast the Taliban swept into Kabul and how quickly the government of Afghanistan collapsed. The new leaders of the newly christened Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are settling and many Afghans worry about going back to the bad old days when the Taliban last ruled from 1996 until 2001.
What’s going to happen in Afghanistan? Will leaving Afghanistan make the world safer or not? What does the way we leave speak to our allies and our enemies?
To talk about Afghanistan, I called up Paul Miller. Miller is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University. He previously served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Listen as we talk about the way America is leaving Afghanistan and what the consequences will be in allowing the Taliban to win.
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The Afghanistan War Was a (Partial) Success
The Fall of Kabul and the Decline of World Order
‘Please Don’t Leave Us Behind. We Will Be Great Americans.’
Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on Afghanistan
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