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Guest: Craig Whitlock, Washington Post investigative journalist who broke The Afghanistan Papers
While many question the United States government's decision to withdrawal from Afghanistan, within the government it has long been known it was an unwinnable conflict. The truth is laid bare in The Afghanistan Papers, a 2019 Washington Post investigation that included a series of documents and recordings with U.S. officials speaking frankly about the conflict. Much of this week's events were telegraphed in that document, but there are larger questions. What happens next? Where does American foreign policy go from here?