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9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal was done prematurely from both a counterterrorism standpoint and in terms of the evacuation of American citizens and allies. However, the media is ignoring the root of the problem was the overconfidence the U.S. Military and Intelligence Community had in the Afghan National Army. Porter argues that that is where the blame ought to lie, rather than squarely on Biden. Now Porter thinks we’ve reached an inflection point, with historic calls for those responsible for these disastrous wars to be held accountable.
Discussed on the show:
- Gareth Porter’s page at the Grayzone
- “Afghanistan collapse reveals Beltway media’s loyalty to permanent war state” (Grazone)
- news.antiwar.com — better than CIA briefings according to Chalmers Johnson
- “Surprise, panic and fateful choices: The day America lost its longest war” (Washington Post)
- “Top defense firms spend $1B on lobbying during Afghan war, see $2T return” (Responsible Statecraft)
- Joe Kent on Tucker
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state. He is the author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and, with John Kiriakou, The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.
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05/06/09 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show
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05/05/09 – Marjorie Cohn – The Scott Horton Show
Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses the illegality of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of torture to extract false confessions linking Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, the embarrassment of Spain investigating U.S. war crimes while Obama sidesteps the issue and Condi Rice’s comeuppance at Stanford.
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05/01/09 – Greg Mitchell – The Scott Horton Show
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04/30/09 – Andy Behlen – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Behlen, philosophy student at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, discusses his class project Website devoted to exposing and preventing torture.
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04/30/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the connection between PNAC and the U.S. empire of bases, how beltway foreign policy advisers changed Obama’s antiwar rhetoric, the rumors of a U.S.-sponsored Iraqi coup d’etat to replace Nouri al-Maliki and the tendency of empires to enter costly military quagmires that bring their downfall.
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