Afghanistan Under Taliban Tyranny: A Conversation With Adela Raz | Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster

Join former Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States, Adela Raz, and Hoover Senior Fellow H.R. McMaster as they reflect on the geostrategic consequences of the 2021 collapse of Afghanistan. Ambassador Raz shares her insights on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the humanitarian catastrophe and systemic human rights abuses currently facing the country, the Taliban’s repressive control over women, and her hope for the future of Afghanistan and its diaspora.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Adela Raz served as the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States from July 2021 to February 2022. Ambassador Raz was first woman to hold the post of Deputy Chief of Staff for an Afghan president's administrative office. She served in this post both in President Hamid Karzai's Administration and in President Ashraf Ghani’s. She was the Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation at Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018. From 2018 to July of 2021, Raz served as Afghanistan’s first female Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, where she was the Vice President of the 75th session of the General Assembly. Since 2022, Raz has served as the director of the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Ambassador Raz has a Master's degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.

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[aurelius]

Woman’s rights are deeply affected by the withdrawal in Afghanistan.

[reneburger]

Stay out of sovereign countries. Mind your own business. Deal with obesity, homelessness, drug abuse... before lecturing other nations.

[andrewfulrich]

Wow, what a thoughtful, hopeful conversation. I love the retrospective approach of finding lessons learned that we can apply to the future. Too often we sacrifice justice for peace and end up with neither. Very interesting to hear the details of exactly how corruption was allowed to fester and what the effects were.

[godswatching]

We screwwed the good people of that country and they will never forgive us. And this is why Our government has guaranteed the taliban to have no problem with Recruitment.

[jefferypalmer]

The people of Afghanistan would not fight for themselves, unlike the people of Ukraine. So tough!

[kevinjenner]

“Righteous Strike” Milley and the retaliatory drone strike in Kabul which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children.

[jackservold]

Tribalism is endemic in Afghanistan, so much like the old west in the United States each elder leader of their tribe is in conrol of the people and an area . They gained materially by their own might, and formed alliances however temporary with neighboring tribes for mutual protection and profit.

[judassss]

America is rotting to the ground and you still think you got the right to judge how other countries want to live?! wow....

[ericpoirier]

Also dont compare the taliban to Hamas!

[cryptocaddie]

Y'all better get your topics up and RUNNING. ITS ABOUT OUR COUTRY NOW. SOFT ON VIOLENCE AND DRUGS IS NOT WORKING BUT HALF THE PEOPLE IN THE USA. MOSTLY IN BIG CITIES VOTE FOR MORE OF THE SAME!!!! THEY ARE OFF THE RESERVATION.PERIOD. DO THE STORY.SAVE THE COUNTRY. OR MAYBE WE SAY TRY TO SAVE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SINCE Y"ALL TOO MY BE STROKING YOURSELVES. THIS IS SELF-WORSHIP. THATS ALL AND IT WILL BE THE END.

[kevinjenner]

“The Afghanistan Papers:A Secret History of the War” by Craig Whitlock 20 years of public lies / 20 years of private truths