Review: Blowback Podcast Exhumes the Seeds of the Afghan Conflict
The podcast Blowback, originally just about the Iraq War, has expanded to cover U.S. foreign policy misadventures from the Korean War to the Bay of Pigs to support for the Afghan mujahedin. Last summer's season on Afghanistan returned the podcast, hosted by Noah Kulwin and Brendan James, to its roots: reminding Americans of how yesterday's proxy becomes today's enemy, a switcheroo that has worked repeatedly because of Americans' short memories and shorter attention spans. Before it was memory-holed, the CIA's support for Islamist rebels in Afghanistan received loud public support in Washington...