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EPISODE · Sep 2, 2021 · 32 MIN

The graveyard of empires, a second Vietnam - Timothy Nunan on the cliches of the war in Afghanistan

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Timothy Nunan joins PTO to talk about the current situation in Afghanistan, the refugee crisis in the country, the US media discussion around the American withdrawal, and what descriptions of Afghanistan as 'a graveyard of empires' or a 'second Vietnam' obscures regarding the history of the country in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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