Afghanistan’s precarious moment
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On our history podcast How We Got Here this week we look at the legacy of warlords in Afghanistan. President Karzai welcomed General Abdul Rashid Dostum back from exile on Sunday despite his reputation for ruthlessness and war crimes. Karzai is apparently desperate for the Uzbek votes that Dostum can deliver. We hear about Dostum’s alleged atrocities from Susannah Sirkin of Physicians for Human Rights and explore the implications of his return with Afghanistan experts Alexander Thier, director of the Future of Afghanistan project at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Selig Harrison, director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy in Washington. Harrison had an op-ed in the New York Times Monday about the relationship between Karzai’s Pashtun ethnic group and the ethnic Tajiks who dominate Afghanistan’s security agencies. Alex Thier has a new piece on the elections at foreignpolicy.com. AP Photo/Darko Bandic
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