Episode 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine

<div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="amiq7" data-offset-key="4trdc-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4trdc-0-0"><span data-offset-key= "4trdc-0-0">"</span><span data-offset-key="4trdc-0-1">History will cast a shadow over Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan," the</span> <span data-offset-key="4trdc-0-2">Washington Post</span><span data-offset-key="4trdc-0-3">’s David Ignatius warned in April of 2021. "Biden's Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy," George Packer cautioned in</span> <span data-offset-key= "4trdc-0-4">The</span> <span data-offset-key= "4trdc-0-6">Atlantic</span> <span data-offset-key= "4trdc-0-7">magazine in August of that year. "The Cost of Betrayal in Afghanistan," wrote The Atlantic Council’s Ariel Cohen in</span> <span data-offset-key="4trdc-0-8">Newsweek</span> <span data-offset-key="4trdc-0-9">shortly thereafter.</span></div> </div> <div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="amiq7" data-offset-key="2vp66-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2vp66-0-0"><span data-offset-key= "2vp66-0-0">When</span> <span data-offset-key="2vp66-0-2">news broke in April of 2021 that the Biden administration planned to withdraw all documented US troops from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, media outlets almost uniformly rushed to issue condemnations. How could the US, and the West more broadly, simply "abandon the Afghan people," especially women, we’d so bravely liberated? How could the US just up and leave, when it had invested and sacrificed so very much to counter the Taliban over the course of two decades?</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2vp66-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="amiq7" data-offset-key="eur5l-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefa