every one is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we need together in oh, oh i in the year before the september 11th attacks, when the taliban were in power, afghanistan produced literally 0 heroin, no heroine. and after the 911 attacks, they got to

a point by 2010 where they were producing 93 percent of the world's heroin. i know this because i was the chief investigator on the senate foreign relations committee staff at the time. and i went to afghanistan in 2009 to study the problem. the positive trouble is called polar soft, which means dance money. a favorite horn to the drug addicts. it's easy to buy how she should be more heroine here. me neither during the soviet presence, enough gun this done nor after it under the taliban. could this possibly have been imaginable. ah. in 2000, in an attempt to boost the taliban image, its leader more than

a 100. 0 mac and opium puppy cultivation, anywhere on afghanistan, soil the lucas, you get on the little some of them. minimum the sale. what are the limits of phone calls from god? the one that says this is what we're looking for money for, which is we're still get a and he'll be nipple supply on the fish for me to green us. americans for, i need to go forward, but then i will go for just what it was not to me. i in this video was filmed in 2015 numbers, have only grown since then. i've got this down. is nelda undisputed world leader in opium production. field acreage has now expanded

to rival the size of some european countries. afghanistan confidently holds 1st place and heroine production. that lead is growing every year. by 2009, the corruption index garrison is still the lowest or the next to lois. how did the african economy survive through opium, through drug trade? they were attempts to change that. they never succeeded. and the people in charge were very, very corrupt pharaoh and kills and feeds at the same time. to day one, f gunny intend is directly linked to opium production. in a country ravaged by war, trading in the opium puppy ended derivatives has pretty much become the only source of income for afghanistan. rural poll, well giving international drug rings. another way to generate huge profits. well, i went to lush guard guy, which is the capital of hellman problems,

and that's where most of the hair when poppy is grown. and i very naive, lee went to meet with a poppy farmer. and i said to him, instead of poppy, why don't you grow things with 2 growing seasons, onions, tomatoes, pomegranate. and he said with frustration, you know, the americans told me in 2001 that if i told them where the arabs were, i could grow all the poppy i wanted. and now you come and tell me i can't grow poppy. so i came back and i told john kerry, who was my boss at the time, this is a real problem. we have to do something about heroin bobby cultivation. and he said why? i said, because it's 93 percent of the world's poppy heroine poppy. and he said right, and it all goes to iran and russia, and we don't care if their heroin addicts and so we never did anything.

ah, soviets produced enough canister and shipped all over the world through well established smuggling channels around the globe. afghanistan's opm industry killed hundreds of thousands of people every ah, the explosive growth in opium production is one of the main byproducts of the us presence in afghanistan. and arguably, america's only real legacy after leaving the country. no substantial infrastructure has been built in 20 years. scorched is all that the of god. these have left when you sign, you see if you go to me to go to black, usually if you go the pro these 2 menu choose, when you get there, we will go to the gus justice. you took me ask you to come to go to conduct that a little boy, if you have to put you on the though should be good. so what do you

need done? voice americans of black. you will probably beginning at the top, but i will get them now, but it is all a chest, as with your probably should be all some money. but the only real way to judge that 20 years of american presence in afghanistan is by looking at the abandoned military bases. no industrial or social facilities were ever built in those he is in facts throughout this time of dennis done continues to benefit from the soviet legacy side up on the status quo. a teller i've said is about to say that you can put your money that you or somebody can me that was, that was yeah, they know the as a very duty showing you the place. thank you must put it in there.

but some of those channels to choose, but those are pretty much genius for your son or are you there you go. pretty know what i can do that. ah indeed tough. gonna stand still benefits from infrastructure that the soviet union built with moscow support. 150 major facilities were constructed thousands of kilometers of mountain road, the ssl, and finally connecting the northern and central region as well as dams, oil. dep owes factories, hospitals and schools, not to mention a navigation system installed by soviet specialists that helped defeat hunger. ah, so sir, i got what school, which was loyal of order. and i don't know if i, jason knew colonial is school about the most policies you have yet to produce. i

mean, it was rude with dora. that's what i tell you guys cuz she would you please if she was on your site? no. last only, can you go and go ahead and get out of the family at what age it was completed on. not just get valuable when you process the leash vision. ah, i think that's an, as i said, cutting them. i get their existence to guess and i will look at that even. it was 3 . so starting serious goes to 0. it's measure it goes fast. motion which interest you or mr. mission to service studies, a map of his homeland woven into an oriental carpet. he knows every province, city and village bookish luck like the back of his hand as much as a general shape like each. after the nudge below,

government was overthrown. in the spring of 992 jello was one of many high ranking up gun officials who were forced to flee. the country was repeated for the majority of the really shouldn't. i mean this, this will have run in covered with nibble and electrician, but initially show if a source out about, initially from the 1st of a nucleus of mental mass of money. so the initial, we'll talk about with the eliminate us yesterday. did you still ship here? we don't you just we just that a boy. i mean the for the was it done? look to see my address about another man that i'm going to ask you that pretty much

what the mother prior goes up subject will protest and that and was them doing that? you know? but yes, much, lou go in the video for several decades. their homeland has no, no peace, and no more people than ever. the trying to flee the country, the residency with origin which i don't know the thumbs engine, it's not on into against you would through the through the origin which and through the but the case through him, private, based on new winners and with me. and when the soviets invaded and 979, we get into some of that history because it's very important. c,

u. s. began working with the moves. and the reason why the dean hate is the pro soviet government was because that the pro soviet government was allowing women to get educated was supporting land reform and supporting industrialization and modernization. there was reactionary, backward islamic extremist elements of the weather was the united states, put it and overthrew the more progressive pro sylvia government. that was giving women rights for the united states. now to be the moaning, the fate of women is a little bit of hypocrisy. they're given us history of us involved with my own doctors that are going to school and get some good school right now. they go to shop, they go to pay the school because she, we are talked by doors, extremist elements,

terrorists who don't want us educated. we must add to august or to send or school children to school or go to school. never give up on that. i would. i'm sure millions of accounts wouldn't give me the the saying in the koran, attributed to the prophet mohammed, the dreams are threefold. sometimes they represent divine guidance, sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes there about the complex of dated living and past events. this applies also to women's rights in afghanistan, today, encouraged in the past to live out their dreams of being fully fledged human beings,

african women. and now being told that this amount to satanic possession when they turn to and on what can they count in this time of existential struggle? the it's an open secret that private military companies have been playing a role in om complex worldwide. us government doesn't track the number of contractors that uses in places iraq or afghanistan united states army and the military in general is so reliance on a private sector. i would call the dependency divide. we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't, our western private military companies can in their turn use so called sub contractors from countries with trouble past the quite good that they had also been soldiers. i was i was my drug profession. our job is these were

the only one that looked with no limit, malone, which are to be merciless killing machine. now they fight and die in other people's was people carol lot went to a dead soldier or deb marine shows up in this country. we started asking ourselves, why did they die? why do what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about the contractors the in oh, in oh, oh, i

oh. this yoga center in couple was established in 2017 dozens of afghan women attended here every day. talk com. kathy well educated with strong leadership skills and business pro s, there are very few people like her enough ganawe's done. every day she makes her way to the studio where she is greeted by waiting yogurt. and he was the head of the mom like cancel, sunday, last year to that hall at the head of the city behind these walls. those are very different f ganna stuff. well then i got sounds like it's all about us. they can they can,

we can talk to check pushes, she doesn't want to being done on the family can use despite all the precautions. she started receiving phone threats that each glass. how about it? so she made me, chap, fate, bladder on him. i had some sort of command on them each on math, but now with the taliban back, we can't reveal her face with the white

flags with the black shot. now fly over every state building not just income bowl but in every major city. and every checkpoint. the taliban brought their convictions and symbols. new rules are now in place. women's faces on advertising posters incapable have been painted over beauty. saelens boarded up women are obliged to wear the bercher. as a result, both demand and price have increased $10.00 times since the taliban arrived. and this is just the beginning. i believe in the strictest interpretation of serial law . they will be amputating people's arms. they were hanging people. they were certainly almost imprisoning women when they were in control. it was a very, very backwards society. will it be that bad? now?

we don't know for sure, but a certainly the plight of women in afghanistan is not something that i'm very optimistic about me in the 1990 s. the taliban imposed the harshest restrictions on women female afghanistan. it could be stoned to death. but failing to worry about john in public, they will submit to leave their homes without a male relative. women were denied both and education and careers and even medical care. all these rules were enforced by the religious belief. now they're totally been claimed that they have changed and will let women be educated, have a job, serve, and even hold government positions. these claims, lack of credibility, they are often contradicted by the facts. yes. be all in this moment to the very, very difficult spot. there is immense violence. is this immense unger in

our country. there's a vacuum filter of the sun and there was the presence of the international community in america for, for 20 years. natal boys and girls must now attend separate classes. women are banned from all sports without full face and body covering wild female soldiers fear for their life. totally ban say that despite showreel law, african women's rights will be protected. i don't rely or put my faith in the taliban. i know for rick history and the fears that many people in afghanistan have, but we have to we have to hope it's not clear yet that the taliban will be worse than egypt or saudi arabia or israel, or 50 countries that the united states openly arms and supports and funds and trains. so if we're going to get the u. s. government to talk about human rights, that's the 1st step. there's

a whole world out there. the 1st step is to stop arming the worst human rights abusers on earth, because it's so clear and easy. more than 2000000 afghans have fled to other countries as refugees. people started leaving in large numbers a few years ago when the americans were still there. they left because they'd abandoned all hope of seeing peace restored to their homeland. and after the taliban, the number of people wanting to flee has increased dramatically. they include not only women, but journalists, public figures, interpreters, and anyone else who worked with foreigners and helped to build a brighter future for afghanistan over the last 20 years. mm. but well educated people weren't, you know, the ones trying to leave ferrying life under the taliban. ordinary folks from the provinces had to abandon their homes to. they tried to save their families from the atrocities of law. in the sunsets

over a refugee camp of the outskirts of missouri, saudis, another day has passed just like every previous day. it's been a struggle for survival me describes herself as a spokesperson for the refugee camp. it houses 30 families, mostly ethnic, was backs me thought a model madame was an employee of us, the product, none of us just thought it in. i'm at the good that all that on a shout a jamie, the resources are not bonus. jag mitch's the mail. my name is jeremy of mid doesn't go home is done up on in some way. i'm away. don't say that i didn't call them calling you to say that about that whole number, but that's all i rags blown in the wind fabric bleached by the

scorching sun. a happ hazard array of impromptu huts that sprouted in the middle of the desert. people who abandoned their homes and applause had been gardens of now lived in these squalid conditions for a year. i knew still going to guide me. yeah. i mean, you have a good luck. i'm going to be the mother that i will need to move the colors at that beta. leave you my new stick you more i number moment. what is our weather? the thought and then they got their mom you had in. oh, you got to do that kind of or some of them. i haven't done that. let me get them. i don't know maybe late them. megan. the mom called on and i've already push it down. and now during my daughter and join me on my cell and via us in

a minute, again, i'm going to go home or comes in the show, like what i can if i'm in the notes that comes in, they get me get that you make out, moth i'm not sure how much is damaging the engine was going on. i got all but what about i don't i? michelle chevy was any good. i can always i'm you know women are shut where they know what the job a job for them. i can be a good mon monday and i'm going and even here the refugee is worry about their children. even among those who regard themselves as a literate, there's a strong awareness that a good education is critical for that countries future. lot of the way i'm on the thinking. obama as this is not the set. it's for jaylen does not have more.

i'm going to look at what the son of the brother gets. he's in this. get a one, a son, a birth? nothing. mister mana? after 20 years enough, get us done. america has clearly failed to eliminate any of the problems. those who wanted to make money from a war on afghanistan made buckets and buckets of money, the big weapons dealers, the war contractors, the reconstruction, the mercenary contracting firms that do all the cooking and cleaning and, and work that the troops don't do anymore. they made pockets and buckets of money, and the politicians whose campaigns are funded with what we call the rest of the world, bribery. but in the united states, we call it contributions. they got money into their campaigns and got elected. so if that was a goal, it was a big success. i think that president

biden's position that he has no regrets is disingenuous. it's meant for public consumption. certainly the americans didn't know what to do long term. we just threw money at the problem and that never works. you know, there's an old saying at the ca that you can buy an afghan warlord, but you can certainly rent one, and that is not a long term strategy. so here we are 20 years and $3.00 trillion dollars later we have literally nothing to show for it. over 20 years, roughly 750000 troops from several countries served enough canister on more than 3500 western coalition. soldiers were killed. americans suffered the most casualties among all foreign contingency. at the same time, by some estimates, the african national army police lost more than 65000 troops. the total number of civilian deaths is impossible to estimate. but at numbers in the hundreds of

thousands, this blood buff has brought neither peace to afghanistan, nor succeeded in defeating terrorism. now we're going to have not only the vietnam syndrome, but the afghanistan syndrome and a little bit of the iraq syndrome. but the visuals are so reminiscent of the visual just people trying to escape from the helicopters from the roofs of the embassy. you know, the united states hopefully is going to learn some lesson. ah, my genius, that's a long week and it goes to i was of the but the much the amusement of wisdom. no good size my to so i mean i can finish that, not just the reason that you would so then you will use that as little ha, actually sure. what is the issue in this curve goes, i'm not the more you know, some of you know, we put out initially the bite and administration plans to end the 20 year war by

91120th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in us history. the to which they responded with the longest the military campaign, but they failed to make a graceful exit. their withdraw was more like a retreat and bite and certainly expected to crumble so quickly. so he was unprepared to things happen just almost overnight. so you're saying 3 months, it and they're taking 3 minutes before this lapse. the main goal is to strong terrorism and afghans. was it achieved? yes and no. okay, to essentially no longer exists. good for us. but diane exists isis, which came out of arcadia. there are certainly other terrorist groups that are worse than all kinda because syria here in the united states is arming and financing the nist of france. that's an al qaeda. how do you explain that to the

american people that this is the same group, or at least an offshoot of the group that murdered 3000 americans on one day. and now we're sending them weapons and money. ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe? tyson lation, for community you going the right way or are you being direct?

what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows, ah, in the one drug started as a way to come back. a great problem. what's the one? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota. and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a check, told us that andrew was competing short form. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening.

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