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Blowback has started publishing Season 4, on Afghanistan. The first half focuses on the Soviet Afghan War (which I refreshed myself on this past year with Svetlana Alexievich's Zinky Boys), & the second on US involvement.
We live with incredible myths shaped around national strife, in part because it is very hard to conceive of national identity *without* the rhetoric of conflict.
Hard. But not impossible. Histories like this one remind us of the need to try. #Podcasts