Phyllis Bennis and Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan Withdrawal

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This week on CounterSpin: US news media are full of armchair generals who talk about weapons of war like they’re Hot Wheels, and have lots of thoughts about how “we coulda got ’em” here and “we shoulda got ’em” there. Not to put too fine a point on it. All of this and more is on display in coverage of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan—along with, as usual, some exceptional countervailing reporting. We’ll prepare ourselves with insights on Afghanistan from Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and from Matthew Hoh, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. Transcript: ‘Accountability to the People of Afghanistan Should Remain Our Focal Point’ and ‘So Much of This War Has Got Almost Nothing to Do With the Afghans Themselves’