Afghanistan II: The Path to Jihad

An episode of the SNAFUBAR podcast, hosted by College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt, titled "Afghanistan II: The Path to Jihad " was published on June 9, 2025 and runs 57 minutes.

June 9, 2025 ·57m · SNAFUBAR

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Summary

Welcome back to SNAFUBAR. This week's episode marks the second of three episodes focusing on Afghanistan from a historical and cultural perspective, both as a region and later, as a country. For today's episode , we will continue to look at Afghanistan and the role the United States played in the conflict and instability of the country in the late 20th and early 21st century and all that happened between the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the American invasion in 2001. This series is also the first of our "Close Look" groupings where we delve deep into one subject matter over the course of multiple episodes. SNAFUBAR is hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sara Hart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, who teaches Religious Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeff Crane ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠who is an Environmental Historian and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle EastBergen, The Longest War, 2011. Carter, “Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence”Carter, “January 4th Address to the Nation”Coll, Ghost WarsBritannica, Executive Order 11905Bhutta, “Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict”History.com, “Domino Theory”Office of the Historian, “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XII, Afghanistan”Reagan, “Proclamation 4908 - Afghanistan Day”Truman, “A Report of the National Security Council - NSC 68”U.S. Senate, “S. Res. 400 Establishing a New Seclect Committee: Church Committee”U.S. Dept of Justice, “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978”Young, “40 years ago, Church Committee investigated Americans spying on Americans”Research and writing for the show is done by Liam Salcuni and Roman Sotomayor SNAFUBAR is produced by Abigail Smithson and brought to you by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt.

Episode Description

Welcome back to SNAFUBAR. This week's episode marks the second of three episodes focusing on Afghanistan from a historical and cultural perspective, both as a region and later, as a country.

For today's episode , we will continue to look at Afghanistan and the role the United States played in the conflict and instability of the country in the late 20th and early 21st century and all that happened between the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the American invasion in 2001.

This series is also the first of our "Close Look" groupings where we delve deep into one subject matter over the course of multiple episodes.

SNAFUBAR is hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sara Hart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, who teaches Religious Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeff Crane ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠who is an Environmental Historian and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt.

Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East

Bergen, The Longest War, 2011.

Carter, “Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence”

Carter, “January 4th Address to the Nation”

Coll, Ghost Wars

Britannica, Executive Order 11905

Bhutta, “Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict”

History.com, “Domino Theory”

Office of the Historian, “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XII, Afghanistan”

Reagan, “Proclamation 4908 - Afghanistan Day”

Truman, “A Report of the National Security Council - NSC 68”

U.S. Senate, “S. Res. 400 Establishing a New Seclect Committee: Church Committee”