
Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
Jacobin Radio
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The Four Hundred Year War - A Book Review
The book is fantastic. I highly recommend everyone, a, you know, by a copy of the forty year war,. especially considering afghanistan a being in the news more lately, a of the us. Troop withdrawal. Invasion in two thousand two. You also write about a how the united states was very much involved in building up the talipan in order to fight off the soviets who had taken control of afghanistan. Can you elaborate on that history a little bit? It's a long history, ass as you know. But basically, during the cold war, the iranian regime, which was then run by the king the shafiran, under us
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