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07-19-2022, 04:08 AM
The last few days in Afghanistan have been chaotic as the Taliban retake control of the country.
The debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the execution of the U.S. withdrawal from the country after two decades of war.
How could those assumptions have proved so wrong, so quickly?
Guest: David E. Sanger (https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-e-sanger?smid=pc-thedaily), a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
An Afghan military that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that President Biden, and most Americans, no longer believed in brought an ignoble end to the United States’ longest war (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/14/us/afghanistan-biden.html).
A takeover of the whole of Afghanistan was all but absolute as the government collapsed (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-surrender.html) and the U.S. rushed through a frenzied evacuation.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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The debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the execution of the U.S. withdrawal from the country after two decades of war.
How could those assumptions have proved so wrong, so quickly?
Guest: David E. Sanger (https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-e-sanger?smid=pc-thedaily), a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.
Sign up here (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily) to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline).
Background reading:
An Afghan military that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that President Biden, and most Americans, no longer believed in brought an ignoble end to the United States’ longest war (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/14/us/afghanistan-biden.html).
A takeover of the whole of Afghanistan was all but absolute as the government collapsed (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-surrender.html) and the U.S. rushed through a frenzied evacuation.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)