The true history of Afghanistan | Tariq Ali | IAI
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- Tariq Ali sheds light on the reality of Afghanistan throughout the US occupation and today.
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Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Compared to Iraq, Afghanistan became the 'good war.' But today, with the collapse of the puppet regime in Kabul, what does the future hold for a traumatised Afghan people? Legendary activist Tariq Ali provides his answer to this burning question.
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Tariq Ali is a famed political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. His latest book 'The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold' explores the history and present of the war in Afghanistan.
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As I recall U.S. trained Taliban with Univ. of Nebraska personnel in Pakistan after Z-biggy set up the sting. 'back in the Navy then they wanted to say USSR was moving into Afghanistan to get an Indian Ocean port next, and U.S. Navy wanted a 700 ship fleet, after CNO Zumwalt retired (with his Russian wife). Next though George HW Bush with all his inside CIA connections got Carter out of office with the Iran Crisis and became the Gippers VP in a quick 20 min. discussion behind close doors in Detroit in 1980. Zbignew Bzrzynski's Tri-Lateral plans to become president went down the drain and Afghanistan became the new Viet Nam. Afghanistan even supplied heroin for CIA black ops like South-East Asia did. More of those anti-communist hang out wars for the Gipper' like Lebanon, Granada, Nicuragua (Iran-Contra), or ole DPRK or Libya na-na-na-na boo-boo operations! Where would Hollywood been without Tom Spanks, and Rambo in Afghanistan in the 80's?
"?true history"? Only partly!
1. "Taliban" is a propaganda term.
2. In his introduction, Tariq did non mention anything about the Britsih Empire or before it?
3. I am interested in more factual HISTORY as nearly half of it is often proven not factual.
BAFS
Not only is he well articulate, but also he's straight to the point.
Guys, you should also watch his interview on Churchill.
Bravo for Somalia.
done
Tariq Ali is great!
The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan on the 15th of February 1989. The occupation ended after 9 years and 48 days
Very interesting. I wonder what some of the provocations were exactly (1:45). Great stuff.
Mashalla very nice analysis of the afghan situation
You know that Islam occupied Afghanistan?
You cannot force democracy on a society, that by and large either never experienced it or fully embraced it when they did.
Especially when you are not even a democratic country yourself 😅
Very true!
We need to first experience democracy in the "first world" then take it to the 'heathen' abroad - like our colonizing forefathers took 'the light of faith' in the previous centuries.
People inthe cities did. Stop lying
@@michaeldy3157 I spent the best part of 18 months in Kabul, spread over 4 tours, if people embraced democracy the Taliban would not have returned to power.
@@chrisjones2224 how does the average, lowly paid person, who's primary concern is their livelihood, prevent a blood thirsty, ignorant, stone age theology from gaining power?
Thank you Tariq Ali.
Thank you
AQ stated aim after afghan war was destruction of the US, the idea promulgated by Iran exactly during Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. AQ and Taliban may be different in their objectives but Taliban ideas are incompatible with anyone. The US bungled in Afg for many reasons but much of the problems lay with Taliban themselves which is coming home to roost in Pakistan.
It has been alleged that 70 percent of all the opiates trafficked throughout the world comes through Afghanistan. Does this fact play a part in any of the conflicts?
And trafficked by the state-within-a-state that orchestrated 9/11 and the JFK/BK/MLK/MX assassinations. After all, if you're going to have your own private army, intelligence organisation and a global media propaganda system at your command to effect regime change both at home and abroad Donald Rumsfeld and pals need vast amounts of money, as much or more so than the official state can provide, to finance it.
That fact plays the main part.
This is an excellent question for the CIA 👍🏻
its because the powerful ones such congressman of your country wants it this way , they export it to bangkok through WFP, UN small aircraft and make billions of dollars through this do you understand now the game .
@@spiritualseeker4174 this was happening before my country existed.
Ok, I like this cat! Tariq is spot on.
This guy said absolutely nothing important on the subject.
@@republica7337 ok, so you understand the historical perspective on Afghanistan and he’s simply reiterating some known facts. 👍🏼
@@republica7337 Oh look! A right wing bot....
@@jonathonjubb6626 oh look, one who makes no sense
What do you have to say about situation in Pakistan?
Bhai triq, briqi se msle ko samjhao
I grew up in the late fifties and early sixties in a working class multi-ethnic neighborhood of European immigrants. It was called "the Melting Pot" back then. But the pot had a lot of cracks in the pot. The Poles had a deep animus against the Soviet Union. You could say it bordered on ethnic hatred. So I'm not surprised Brzezinski also reflected in his prejudices why he wanted to give some payback to the Russians. But unfortunately revenge is a grave you dig for yourself as Americans learned on 9/11. But I wasn't surprised. I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam. I knew how we always treat innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Americans have this messianic nationalism they call exceptionalism. It's the faith of fanatics. Of course, only our enemies are the fanatics. And I wasn't surprised after twenty years we just walked away from Afghanistan with a shambolic withdrawal that hearkens back to the fall of Saigon in April, 1975. America has been a bull in china store since it entered the era of forever wars. It lost its moral compass long ago. It's due for a comeuppance with its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Another foreign policy debacle.
Ukraine does have a say in this war in their country.
How is it that you say that the taliban is responsible for the 911 lies. I would think that you could say the truth about who the perpetrators are. Don't be afraid
Firstly let me level with Tariq Ali. I am roughly the same age and I first encountered him in the 1960's on newsreels heading up various demonstrations in London. My politics are polar opposite to Mr. Ali's. However, he has presented a most concise chain of events as regards the problems in Afghanistan. There is one continuing question that I have never been able to address. Bearing in mind the 'Afghanistan Question' was there in Victorian times when the British Army had several expeditions into the country. My question is what is the strategic importance of the country, it has no access to the Indian Ocean and it has lived and continues to live in the seventh century.
You’r’s is a mildly orientalists take on Afghanistan (probably usual for older folk like you). But the Victorians marched into Afghanistan to prevent a Russian presence next to their Crown Jewel of the Empire, India.
@@uzairazhar2564also, remember iskander the great.
@@uzairazhar2564 these old and dying orientalist besterd never understand these facts!!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
Afghanistan was occupied by the Soviet Union for 10 years before the US invasion in 2001.
️ The aim of the Soviet occupation was to support the communist government in Afghanistan.
⚡️️ The US covertly provoked the Soviet Union to intervene in Afghanistan.
The US supported far-right religious groups to fight the Soviets.
After the Soviet withdrawal, Afghan groups fought each other, causing destruction in Kabul.
The Taliban, formed by young Afghan refugees, came to power in the mid-1990s with support from Pakistan and the US.
☪️ The Taliban established a religious government in Afghanistan.
♀️ The video claims the US played a key role in creating the conditions for the Taliban's rise to power.
A period of relative stability followed the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
️ The Afghan government provided refuge to al-Qaeda, a group that previously fought alongside the US.
Al-Qaeda felt betrayed by the US and carried out terrorist attacks, including 9/11.
The US demanded the surrender of al-Qaeda leaders, but the Afghan government requested evidence.
🇺🇸 The US invaded Afghanistan after a two-week delay, following Pakistan's advice to the Taliban to avoid resistance.
The Taliban mostly disappeared, with some taking refuge in Pakistan and others returning to their villages.
✊ Resistance against the US occupation arose within a few years, fueled by civilian casualties and drone attacks.
Evidence of civilian casualties and human rights abuses by the US emerged years later.
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I believe Mr Tariq Ali either intentionally misrepresented the whole scenario from 1989 onwards or that he is not aware of the reality on the ground. He systematically bypassed several distasteful facts about the T-aliban and the involvement of big foreign players in support of T-liban. by the way it’s such miss reporting and statements by high profile individuals that general public no longer trusts 21st century journalism! A sad reality!!
What truth are you talking about?
If your source of information came from the Afghan-pashtun tribe, then it's not the truth.
Allah's last prophet
TARIQ, WHAT NONSENSE?
BAFS
Tariq is just repeating what the media has been peddling, but he is not informed of the real reason why the Soviets were in Afghanistan. I KNOW WHY because I was in Moscow in 1964 and 1965 and friends of the Talibaan (Afghani Students) and their dream of developing and modernizing their homeland that the British had kept backward with Soviet direct help on the ground. And this both the UK and the US could not accept and therefore set up rebellious fanatical and poorly educated religious groups to fight the Communists in the name of Islam by creating the famous JIHADI and AL-QAEDA gangs led by their own agent Tim Osman (Usama bin Ladin) and other Saudi fanatics. They destroyed Libya because Muammar al Ghaddafi was leading Africa to develop and modernize without Western help!
To hear Tariq repeat the media garbage that the Brzezinski NATO-CIA run Al-Qaeda admitted having carried out 9/11 is disgusting! Tariq cannot be that ignorant not to know that it was a US-ISRAEL false flag operation to start the WAR OF TERROR they called WAR ON TERROR on the entire world, but mainly on the Muslim world that represented their main obstacles.
SHAME ON YOU, TARIQ!!!
BAFS
One major omission is reference to the source of the finance and ideology behind the taliban, al kaeda and isis - the middle eastern theoocracies and the kingdom of saidi arabia in particular
After the invasion of Afghanistan the Saudis halted any supper for the Taliban and many of the Taliban are neo-Deobandi, not Salafist. The Afghanistan Taliban have been getting their support form the ISI (as a bulwark against Indian influence next to their western border.
Terrorist secular ideology is the reason for the emergence of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS. You are the ones who killed the people and caused the crimes and terrorism and your bloody history.