S01E46 Jeffrey Fleishman, Politics of Leaving Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Afghanist-gone

August 22, 2021 – The Taliban’s swift Afghanistan conquer showed the tenuous American hold on the nation despite 20 years of war.

“It was ultimately going to happen because the American mission failed,” Los Angeles Times Foreign Editor Jeffrey Fleishman said. “They don’t call Afghanistan the Graveyard of Empires for nothing.”