Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
Jacobin Radio
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Afghanistan Is Not Like a Major Threat to American Capitalist Interests
A, ye, ye. I mean, if it seems totally insane and and senseless and just downright evil, i think it's because it is. And yet there's nothing that holds these people accountable. There's no true counterweight. They have barely anything like resisting us locally and then domestically. We just don't have a true anti war movement or,. like, y now, a lefton in power, or, i government which can actually put some checks on ohe this military power. It's the situation where, like, this terrible, horrible thing happens, it there's nothing there to stop it.
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