George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's happening most dramatically in this alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley.
So even if crypto makes my head spin a bit, I couldn't ignore it.
It's too important to just let it happen and then gnash our teeth afterward.
For sure, Terry, with a number of them.
And especially with one family who I've written about over and over again.
husband and wife, young Afghans in their 20s.
She is a Hazara, which is a very highly persecuted Shia minority in Afghanistan.
They both served in the Afghan military.
And as soon as Kabul fell, their lives were in danger because they were seen as enemies of the regime and maybe even as heretics because they had a mixed marriage.
She was a Tajik Sunni.
She was a Hazara Shia.
They began to flee from Kabul.
House to house and even mountain cave to mountain cave in the center of the country.
She was pregnant.
It was a terrible situation.
I would have these conversations with them on WhatsApp where she would say, I don't know if my baby is going to survive.
I don't know if I'm going to survive.
I can feel the walls closing in.
I don't know where to go.
So I wrote about them over several years.
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