Andrew Watkins on the One-Year Anniversary of Taliban Takeover

August 16, 2022 00:09:06
Andrew Watkins on the One-Year Anniversary of Taliban Takeover
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Andrew Watkins on the One-Year Anniversary of Taliban Takeover

Aug 16 2022 | 00:09:06

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Show Notes

With “more people going hungry in Afghanistan than anywhere else in the world,” the Taliban have shown they recognize “the scope of the problems they’re facing. But they’ve also revealed … just how little they can do to grapple with the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” says USIP's Andrew Watkins.

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