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up next concentrating troops in afghanistan and spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the hunt for al qaida is a deeply for all flawed strategy that's the view of former marine officer matthew hoh an outspoken critic of u.s. policy in the country he thinks washington is being in inconsistent in its military pursuits as he explains the artes guy nature to cuba. does the goal match the cost that is something many americans are asking when it comes to the u.s. strategy in afghanistan and members of the of ghana's then study group call on the president to bring the majority of the u.s. troops home abandoning the strategy of defeating the taliban and matthew hoh is heading that group he's a marine officer who resigned from the state department in protest of obama's policies the in afghanistan it happened last year and he he's here with me now thank you so much for joining me in that matthew so the war in afghanistan is the longest and it has cost a lot to the united states who are saying american interests at stake in afghanistan do not warrant this level of sacrifice please explain
up next concentrating troops in afghanistan and spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the hunt for al qaida is a deeply for all flawed strategy that's the view of former marine officer matthew hoh an outspoken critic of u.s. policy in the country he thinks washington is being in inconsistent in its military pursuits as he explains the artes guy nature to cuba. does the goal match the cost that is something many americans are asking when it comes to the u.s. strategy in afghanistan and...
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should not be afraid of taliban afghanistan i don't believe so. i'm not i'm not one be apologist for the taliban you know and i don't want to be accused of that or be seen as that but we have to recognize the taliban is not a monolithic movement the taliban is composed of many different groups within afghanistan that have diverse motives supporting taliban a lot of times that being financial financial the sense of now i'm going to give you ten not because i give you ten dollars to put a bomb aside because in your valley on a give this group a couple thousand dollars and that's going to make that group the most powerful group in that valley it a lot of the groups that support the taliban have very vocal concerns. things are not going to affect you and i here in washington d.c. or other folks throughout the united states also to the ties between the taliban and al qaeda are not really there there or certainly elements of the taliban that have ties to al qaida but you can you can isolate them do not because there is ten or fifteen or maybe even twent
should not be afraid of taliban afghanistan i don't believe so. i'm not i'm not one be apologist for the taliban you know and i don't want to be accused of that or be seen as that but we have to recognize the taliban is not a monolithic movement the taliban is composed of many different groups within afghanistan that have diverse motives supporting taliban a lot of times that being financial financial the sense of now i'm going to give you ten not because i give you ten dollars to put a bomb...
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crossing into afghanistan have stopped the trucks that were crossing into afghanistan now what pakistan is trying to achieve by this obviously this is not an across the board ban on the nato supplies into afghanistan this is as i said one of the crossings there's another very important. crossing in the south that goes all the way to kandahar that crossing is called chum and it's in the southwestern province of baluchistan and that crossing as far as i checked just a few hours ago is still open i'm not sure if tankers are actually crossing into afghanistan from that point as we speak right now ours but at least one saying i don't want to say i was crossing one crossing is closed there's another nearby crossing that's open but let's talk about the nato airstrikes now and the apparent reason for these u.s. and nato strikes is that militants are using the pakistani tribal zone along the afghan border as a hideout and you tell me can pakistan solve this problem on its own. ok this is a point that unfortunately pakistani officials have not been able to clarify very in clear terms and our alli
crossing into afghanistan have stopped the trucks that were crossing into afghanistan now what pakistan is trying to achieve by this obviously this is not an across the board ban on the nato supplies into afghanistan this is as i said one of the crossings there's another very important. crossing in the south that goes all the way to kandahar that crossing is called chum and it's in the southwestern province of baluchistan and that crossing as far as i checked just a few hours ago is still open...
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he has not come from occupying afghanistan yes it was based in afghanistan when we showed up they fled to pakistan they dispersed around the world they became this near virtual decentralized loosely for motivation that uses individuals and cells and doesn't rely upon large physical tracks so land our successes in. against al-qaeda and there's a good new yorker article not too long ago about this. have been through more of a police or a warm foresman or intelligence role and we capture khalid sheikh muhammad then by the fact that we've got tens of thousands of u.s. troops occupying. two muslim countries out also to suggest that we need to look at our strategy in the sense of that our policies have been counterproductive and we've turned to using military occupation as a tool to be a terror network that is more similar to a mafia organization or a criminal organization and that is only composed of a couple thousand or a few thousand members worldwide he also said that afghanistan's neighbors say china have actually more to lose from the instability in afghanistan that the united states a
he has not come from occupying afghanistan yes it was based in afghanistan when we showed up they fled to pakistan they dispersed around the world they became this near virtual decentralized loosely for motivation that uses individuals and cells and doesn't rely upon large physical tracks so land our successes in. against al-qaeda and there's a good new yorker article not too long ago about this. have been through more of a police or a warm foresman or intelligence role and we capture khalid...
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now concentrating troops in afghanistan and spending billions of dollars on trying to fight al-qaeda is a waste of lives and money that's the view of ex marine officer matthew hoh an outspoken critic of u.s. policy he talked artie's can. you're losing it with. the war in afghanistan he's the longest and has cost a lot poorer to the united states who are saying american interests at stake in afghanistan do not warrant this level of sacrifice please explain why the wars cost us about four hundred billion dollars it's lasted for over nine years american dead or close to twelve hundred there's been fallon's of afghan deaths. we're spending one hundred billion dollars a year next year will spend about one hundred twenty billion dollars a year according to the congressional research service in a country whose g.d.p. is only fourteen billion and knowing that according to our cia there's only fifty to one hundred al qaeda members in afghanistan so you're talking about spending one billion to two billion dollars a year on each al qaeda presence in afghanistan i know that you had been working
now concentrating troops in afghanistan and spending billions of dollars on trying to fight al-qaeda is a waste of lives and money that's the view of ex marine officer matthew hoh an outspoken critic of u.s. policy he talked artie's can. you're losing it with. the war in afghanistan he's the longest and has cost a lot poorer to the united states who are saying american interests at stake in afghanistan do not warrant this level of sacrifice please explain why the wars cost us about four hundred...
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afghanistan. hello dr hakim or so the people of afghanistan have been exposed to danger and attacks and there are also reports now of voting violations of these elections really worth the risk they pose to people. actually diego is was a big concern among the people of afghanistan about this election. particularly when the taliban threatened the people of afghanistan to not participate in this election and they threatened that today well as attack the polling stations in afghanistan because of. the level of turnout in general in afghanistan in this election was very low particularly in those areas or under control of taliban or under the threat of threats of taliban even. turned out to was very low in the capital of kabul. and the government of afghanistan tried to assure the people of afghanistan about the curative concerns that in general elections and afghanistan was held in a better situation in comparison to the past. ears and that the taliban of course attacks some places off that can three
afghanistan. hello dr hakim or so the people of afghanistan have been exposed to danger and attacks and there are also reports now of voting violations of these elections really worth the risk they pose to people. actually diego is was a big concern among the people of afghanistan about this election. particularly when the taliban threatened the people of afghanistan to not participate in this election and they threatened that today well as attack the polling stations in afghanistan because of....
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american interests at stake in afghanistan do not warrant this level of sacrifice please explain why the wars cost us about four hundred billion dollars it's lasted for over nine years american dead or close to twelve hundred and there's been fallon's of afghan deaths. we are spending one hundred billion dollars a year next year we will spend about one hundred twenty billion dollars a year according to the congressional research service in a country whose g.d.p. is only fourteen billion and now that according to our cia there's only fifty to one hundred al qaeda members in afghanistan so you're talking about spending one billion to two billion dollars a year on each al qaeda presence in afghanistan i know that you had been working in iraq for a while before going into afghanistan was that war worth from where iraq was a few years ago yes the country has stabilized you know you've gone from four thousand civilian deaths someone's down to a few hundred it's still by no means a story and i don't know if i will ever say it was worth. i i i don't agree with those who believe that we neede
american interests at stake in afghanistan do not warrant this level of sacrifice please explain why the wars cost us about four hundred billion dollars it's lasted for over nine years american dead or close to twelve hundred and there's been fallon's of afghan deaths. we are spending one hundred billion dollars a year next year we will spend about one hundred twenty billion dollars a year according to the congressional research service in a country whose g.d.p. is only fourteen billion and now...
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way to have a a real policy in afghanistan pakistan is if we have a plan afghanistan the same way that we've had a very successful plan colombia dropping cocaine in colombia so that's the supply side but what about the demand side what's being done there to. and reduce some of the demand for this product. well when you when your report stated that it was the addiction of the police that it's a problem and you barely mention the corruption one breeds to the other you have got to stop the demand the myth the way that you have a huge flow of drugs in afghanistan and in unregulated growth because people have wanted to support the possibility of economic stability by letting the drugs grow it has bred a quintupling of drug addiction in afghanistan and as a result you have not only the addiction but the corruption so there's got to be education prevention rehabilitation treatment as well as law enforcement and foreign policy it has to be a comprehensive anti drug policy in afghanistan and as i said i believe there is now hope with the new united nations drug policy spokesman and so far the u
way to have a a real policy in afghanistan pakistan is if we have a plan afghanistan the same way that we've had a very successful plan colombia dropping cocaine in colombia so that's the supply side but what about the demand side what's being done there to. and reduce some of the demand for this product. well when you when your report stated that it was the addiction of the police that it's a problem and you barely mention the corruption one breeds to the other you have got to stop the demand...
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dilla barito afghanistan veterans and co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and from kansas is surely phelps roper a member of the westboro baptist church i want to thank you both for joining me now jake i'm going to start with you first i want to talk about this violence in the protests that have broken out in afghanistan you know the country you're a veteran of this war there yourself you know what are your thoughts are you shocked to hear that these protests and violence is breaking out especially in the bud action province which you know for many has long been considered a very america friendly one. a lot of things are happening on the program it's not a surprise that there's an increase in violence due to the mass hysteria that terry jones and the fred phelps have created with the koran burning but it's also i mean but they're not the only ones to blame the rise of the insurgency is largely dictated because of the deaths of innocent civilians and also the death the deaths of of unwanted women and children which are basically the main victims that happens in war so i thi
dilla barito afghanistan veterans and co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and from kansas is surely phelps roper a member of the westboro baptist church i want to thank you both for joining me now jake i'm going to start with you first i want to talk about this violence in the protests that have broken out in afghanistan you know the country you're a veteran of this war there yourself you know what are your thoughts are you shocked to hear that these protests and violence is...
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political afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the knocks on not sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years in the league this is a mix of both your contacts you wouldn't want to buy them off this is opium i want but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. up they will give you it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good educated. and. there are a lot joining. years truth out of the you joined the police to starve themselves but the ministry of kontum a cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem before the police can become a police he detested he will have sort of tests before coming to before going through the exercise or are becoming a police sergeant this is something that h
political afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the knocks on not sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years in the league this is a mix of both your contacts you wouldn't want to buy them off this is opium i want but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found...
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route for the coalition one hundred fuel tankers and trucks haven't been allowed into afghanistan it's seen as a retaliation to a nato helicopter strike into the tarea territory of pakistan in which three local soldiers were killed and three more wounded the alliance says the investigation is now being the incident is now being investigated and promised pakistan's sovereignty would be respected with recently the number of missile strikes and helicopter raids against suspected militants in pakistan's tribal zone have been on the rise pakistani officials say the attacks are violating international law and should be stopped political expert made correct she tells r t that the us led coalition has failed to persuade often drive women on either side of the border to join in the peace. so you need to expect that box on could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down needed supplies because there's a strong feeling that box that box down is getting to the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanista
route for the coalition one hundred fuel tankers and trucks haven't been allowed into afghanistan it's seen as a retaliation to a nato helicopter strike into the tarea territory of pakistan in which three local soldiers were killed and three more wounded the alliance says the investigation is now being the incident is now being investigated and promised pakistan's sovereignty would be respected with recently the number of missile strikes and helicopter raids against suspected militants in...
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afghanistan afghanistan is facing a lot of challenges. cannot solve the problems of afghanistan particularly the problem of security and afghanistan because the taliban are again getting the ground in afghanistan. by. democratic process in afghanistan has failed. because of this i think that the political process in afghanistan in the democratic process and afghanistan could solve the problem of the people and bad the problem in afghanistan is getting worse . where you are with r.t. it's good to have your company today still to come this hour calls for a change in priorities in us. here in these big. and gay marriage. when we hit the campaign trail for the u.s. midterm elections and discover what values something they're the most important in these tough economic times. also in the program find out what dangers lurking in the depths of the baltic sea that's coming your way in just a few minutes. a polish court is due to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday and later r
afghanistan afghanistan is facing a lot of challenges. cannot solve the problems of afghanistan particularly the problem of security and afghanistan because the taliban are again getting the ground in afghanistan. by. democratic process in afghanistan has failed. because of this i think that the political process in afghanistan in the democratic process and afghanistan could solve the problem of the people and bad the problem in afghanistan is getting worse . where you are with r.t. it's good...
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pakistan blocks nato efforts in afghanistan major supply route. in response to the killing of its soldiers by. the alliance denies the claims and has begun its own investigation. and smaller nations are left to talk to empty seats at the close of the un general assembly in new york raising questions over its ability to tackle global issues the us has been criticized for being a. majority of its media left along with those considered the most important speak . well for many russians the summer of two thousand and ten will be remembered for the scorching heat massive wildfires suffocating small. countries emergencies minister. on the lessons to be. thank you. because putting in the rest of his special version of hello mr shaggy sank you for your time this summer russia faced great for.
pakistan blocks nato efforts in afghanistan major supply route. in response to the killing of its soldiers by. the alliance denies the claims and has begun its own investigation. and smaller nations are left to talk to empty seats at the close of the un general assembly in new york raising questions over its ability to tackle global issues the us has been criticized for being a. majority of its media left along with those considered the most important speak . well for many russians the summer...
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we'll bring you even more perspective from afghanistan later on r.t. outspoken war critic matthew hoh says hunting down the taliban is a waste of u.s. military and financial resources you can watch the full interview with him in about fifteen minutes here's a preview. one of the larger problems i think with us foreign policy particular national security policies are not consistent if they're if we are in afghanistan because of al qaeda and if there are only fifty to one hundred members of al qaeda in afghanistan then why are we pulling out of iraq where there are one thousand to two thousand members why do we see and we need to keep. one hundred thousand troops in afghanistan when al qaeda operations come out of somalia and yemen so that consistency is not there in our in our foreign policy particularly in our now security policy and that's very worrisome to me because you don't have consistency if you don't have good critical thought if you don't have a degree of intellectual honesty in your policymaking you are going to have bad policy and you're goi
we'll bring you even more perspective from afghanistan later on r.t. outspoken war critic matthew hoh says hunting down the taliban is a waste of u.s. military and financial resources you can watch the full interview with him in about fifteen minutes here's a preview. one of the larger problems i think with us foreign policy particular national security policies are not consistent if they're if we are in afghanistan because of al qaeda and if there are only fifty to one hundred members of al...
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military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just for scores as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. and we've got more perspective from afghanistan coming your way later here on r t outspoken war critic matthew hoh says hunting down the taliban is a waste of u.s. military and financial resources you can watch the full interview with him in the next hour here's a quick preview. one of the larger problems i think with u.s. foreign policy particular national security policies are not consistent if they're if we are in afghanistan because of al qaeda and if the
military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just for scores as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage...
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you know wants to control all of afghanistan and they'll kill whoever they need to to get that. well there's clearly a difference in degree and a lot of that is based on the society and the norms because you know when the extremists in this country haven't had those legal checks and balances they have gone much further we don't have to go back to foreigner history to see the lynchings in the south as an example of what these. reactionary right wing fanatics will do in order to push their brand of hatred and ideological rigidity but of course you can also can't say that there isn't violence in the american right wing because of course there is i mean there you look at the clinic bombings clinic bombings and abortion doctors killed and i detail in a book a series of shootings and destinations from right wing figures people who following glenn beck and get riled up because they think that america is going to become a communist kenyan socialist state thanks to obama and the democrats and you have right now and this is pretty scary stuff you have a nationwide shortage of ammunition a
you know wants to control all of afghanistan and they'll kill whoever they need to to get that. well there's clearly a difference in degree and a lot of that is based on the society and the norms because you know when the extremists in this country haven't had those legal checks and balances they have gone much further we don't have to go back to foreigner history to see the lynchings in the south as an example of what these. reactionary right wing fanatics will do in order to push their brand...
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pledging to pull its troops out of afghanistan by next summer many for the elections show the country is far from stable and still plagued by corruption policy is in the afghan capital for us. by and large this was certainly not a successful day for afghan democracy there was an extremely ill voter turnout with some polling stations reporting that less than a quarter the number of people turned out today compared to the number of people casting their ballot last year during the presidential elections the first results will come in next week wednesday with the final tape tally been tabled at the end of october but these certainly won't be elections associated with violence more than a thousand polling stations where i'm able to open the doors particularly in far flung rule communities where the taliban has strong control we've also heard some of the electoral complaints commission and it's is that what the course of the day it received numerous reports on irregularities some of the complaints were by people saying that they saw election officials accepting bribes some of the reports we
pledging to pull its troops out of afghanistan by next summer many for the elections show the country is far from stable and still plagued by corruption policy is in the afghan capital for us. by and large this was certainly not a successful day for afghan democracy there was an extremely ill voter turnout with some polling stations reporting that less than a quarter the number of people turned out today compared to the number of people casting their ballot last year during the presidential...
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al qaida and the afghan taliban particularly in these enclaves along the pakistan afghanistan border so paula what is the best educated thought of what will happen to these heavily armed units when the americans eventually do lose interest in the region. well that is the million dollar question what does happen to these heavily trained heavily equipped and heavily funded groups if and when the u.s. loses interest in this part of the world this is a decades old strategy we're not talking about something new we're talking about a system where for whatever reasons it is not politically or economically or militarily viable to the united states to take some kind of direct action it employs proxy armies the same thing or a very similar type of operation happened in iraq against al qaida there we saw the same thing happening back in the one nine hundred eighty s. here in afghanistan when the cia sponsored initiated into take on the soviets and very often people refer to this as the salvador option a throwback to the seventy's and eighty's when the u.s. sponsored diffs squads in countries in
al qaida and the afghan taliban particularly in these enclaves along the pakistan afghanistan border so paula what is the best educated thought of what will happen to these heavily armed units when the americans eventually do lose interest in the region. well that is the million dollar question what does happen to these heavily trained heavily equipped and heavily funded groups if and when the u.s. loses interest in this part of the world this is a decades old strategy we're not talking about...
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problems of afghanistan particularly the problem of the problem of security and afghanistan because the taliban getting the ground in afghanistan and getting stronger by. democratic process in afghanistan has failed. he would extend it because of this i think that the political process in afghanistan in the democratic process and afghanistan could solve the problem of the people and bad the problem in afghanistan is getting worse. and if afghanistan fails to become a stable nation it will have serious consequences for other countries in the region that's according to matthew hoh head of the afghan study group. i think it's in. every other nation's interest to see a negotiated settlement in afghanistan it's been a proxy war or. a real war in one way or another for the last thirty thirty five years in afghanistan and it has improved nobody's economy has approved nobody's way of life i think for nations like the central asian states for russia for china to have issues with their own ethnic minorities or muslim minorities i think it's important for what's happening in afghanistan not to
problems of afghanistan particularly the problem of the problem of security and afghanistan because the taliban getting the ground in afghanistan and getting stronger by. democratic process in afghanistan has failed. he would extend it because of this i think that the political process in afghanistan in the democratic process and afghanistan could solve the problem of the people and bad the problem in afghanistan is getting worse. and if afghanistan fails to become a stable nation it will have...
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strong player that's allied with pakistan in afghanistan although. not so much aligned with the pakistanis so i think they regard the taliban in afghanistan as their as their chip for after the u.s. leaves so they're not going to quit supporting the taliban and there's this charade that they're making an alliance with the u.s. and they do do some things to catch al-qaeda and that sort of thing but they never really go after the taliban and the sanctuaries are very important for the for the taliban in the war in afghanistan and so i think that's probably going to continue the strikes from there the sanctuary in pakistan and so i think the u.s. is going to have a hard time winning this war and i think many people even in the obama administration are thinking that. all right a lot of food for thought there but a lot to leave it there for now thanks much ivan even defense analyst from the independent institute a us think tank. still to come here on r t speakers at the u.n. general assembly talk to themselves find out why the media walked away and left hu
strong player that's allied with pakistan in afghanistan although. not so much aligned with the pakistanis so i think they regard the taliban in afghanistan as their as their chip for after the u.s. leaves so they're not going to quit supporting the taliban and there's this charade that they're making an alliance with the u.s. and they do do some things to catch al-qaeda and that sort of thing but they never really go after the taliban and the sanctuaries are very important for the for the...
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polished afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with mending a hand. yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots. of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not for the good that you don't have enough and there are a lot joining the produce truth out of the people joining the police to solve themselves but the ministry of cantona cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks insid
polished afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with mending...
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and i remember i told him i learned already it's not going to afghanistan the u.s. will try to dominate the whole region let's go back into history for a moment because you fought with proud of having fought with them what you had seen in afghanistan against the safe union how much do you know about links between the mujahideen and the cia at the time from the muslim perspective the war it's not against russia which is the exist country now it was against communism even the soviet union muslims they've been provoked because of communism you know it's problematic issue even in the. muslim countries in the west because you know communism used to be labeled like religion until you muslim christian or jew so it's very important like the ideological motivation how muslims they've been. like to go on fire there but i know it was within the context of the cold war between the soviets. union and the u.s. so the mujahideen and when they fought there if you take it from the ever going in perspective you know it's just a country being invaded and as i told you from a muslim pe
and i remember i told him i learned already it's not going to afghanistan the u.s. will try to dominate the whole region let's go back into history for a moment because you fought with proud of having fought with them what you had seen in afghanistan against the safe union how much do you know about links between the mujahideen and the cia at the time from the muslim perspective the war it's not against russia which is the exist country now it was against communism even the soviet union muslims...
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afghanistan and why we talk about the cia a soldier or b. as a muslim country and one of the leading muslim countries in the world heavily participated at the time on the war so here we have some very simple powerful muslim country involved in the war were you receiving weapons from the u.s. no it's not talk about the arab when we were. we just get the weapons if you ask me of my own experience it's from two main parties you know i am my personal experience here i thought would just that i didn't have any now he's very famous because of what's called a kind of network so our weapons it used to be from his like from his commanders and these people you know on the frontline and from. as well the. libyans we used to cooperate with him a lot so it's that if you talk about morality i believe if you ask any single arab or muslim you know he's not a gun and he participate in the jihad he will give you the name of a local commander so you never directly met any cia representative in afghanistan i've never ever seen anyone. for a minute i've seen eit
afghanistan and why we talk about the cia a soldier or b. as a muslim country and one of the leading muslim countries in the world heavily participated at the time on the war so here we have some very simple powerful muslim country involved in the war were you receiving weapons from the u.s. no it's not talk about the arab when we were. we just get the weapons if you ask me of my own experience it's from two main parties you know i am my personal experience here i thought would just that i...
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is afghanistan policy was dead on arrival when strategy does not work in town much you can't put six forgave them do anything in ten months i think we can agree on that so i think if you're going to make every look good that's right they absolutely where do. they think about it being here that it's time for a break with so to come tonight a look at the waste of the u.s. taxpayer dollars and not from prisons that never held prisoners to a new hospital that still isn't accepting any patients u.s. taxpayers have been on the hook for billions of dollars due to the chronic waste and bloat of the u.s. military machine and while this war is symbolically coming to an end the u.s. is still fighting secret wars around the globe i'll discuss that issue in a moment with former. cia agent and criminal defense attorney jack rice. every month we give you the future we'll do understand how we'll get. to more. best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. knowledge on r.g.p. . when word first got out that soldiers in iraq were leaving seem to the troops were hosing a mega ga
is afghanistan policy was dead on arrival when strategy does not work in town much you can't put six forgave them do anything in ten months i think we can agree on that so i think if you're going to make every look good that's right they absolutely where do. they think about it being here that it's time for a break with so to come tonight a look at the waste of the u.s. taxpayer dollars and not from prisons that never held prisoners to a new hospital that still isn't accepting any patients u.s....
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and antiwar activist i think ok so is the shift of attention from iraq to afghanistan is just another way for the top players in washington to profit financially. when you go into the individual characters that are responsible for the invasion of iraq the imperial motivation it's very important to make sure that we're not ascribing this to you know a conspiracy of a handful of men but really a conspiracy of factors that are much more systemic that that in that they continue to this day and will continue under this continued occupation of fifty something thousand troops and indefinitely under our influence in iraq the reason we're able to draw down in iraq is because the powers that be in america that have always sought to have more war that have always sought to concentrate more power that it always benefited from the increased borrowing and spending that comes with war and the inflation that comes with war will always seek to convince the american people that these this military adventurism is in our best interest and now they found a better scam with afghanistan having a like that p
and antiwar activist i think ok so is the shift of attention from iraq to afghanistan is just another way for the top players in washington to profit financially. when you go into the individual characters that are responsible for the invasion of iraq the imperial motivation it's very important to make sure that we're not ascribing this to you know a conspiracy of a handful of men but really a conspiracy of factors that are much more systemic that that in that they continue to this day and will...
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forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the surge in iraq under the previous administration and in effect the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates is the only hand over from the previous administration to replicate the same type of search which was exit q did on the general betray us in iraq and to make a remake of this strategy in afghanistan while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative furious experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they go to transfer to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just for sports as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. democracy and islam
forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the surge in iraq under the previous administration and in effect the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates is the only hand over from the previous administration to replicate the same type of search which was exit q did on the general betray us in iraq and to make a remake of this strategy in afghanistan while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq could be transferable to...
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strategy all of us forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the same type of search which was executive's around in general in iraq while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq would be transferable to afghanistan the negative furious experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. and there is more insight into the situation in afghanistan later here on the now al spoken of war critic matthew hoh says that hunting down the insurgents is a waste of military and financial resources that full interview is coming your way in
strategy all of us forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the same type of search which was executive's around in general in iraq while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq would be transferable to afghanistan the negative furious experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it...