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EPISODE · Aug 26, 2021 · 54 MIN

Was US failure in Afghanistan inevitable?

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Does the swift collapse of the US-backed Afghan government suggest that places like Afghanistan are ungovernable by anything other than brute force and unimpeded corruption — or does it suggest that the ultimate folly of the post-9/11 wars was the conceit of “nation building” itself?

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