you have a right to live in peace, this endless wall, which is what the war on terror is that came from the other 9 years up. and it's not working for any of us except with the possible exception. obviously, of people invested in the military industrial complex, you're making billions and billions and billions of trillions about it's a way of taxing ordinary people because the money go, the money taken from the taxes of ordinary working people, goes a lot of it goes to the pentagon and then it did out much people who invest in defense. they protect them by spreading them out into 52 states or how many states there are now. so every stage in the union has got a little bit of the war industry. and in consequence, most of their representatives in congress in the senate now spirit presents chairs

come under pressure from their arms industry, not to cut military spending or not to cut the budgets and, and in consequence, huge proportion of the tax revenue or financial state government goes into perpetual war was what is. thank you. and that's for this $911.00 show will be back on monday. when we go to the arabian embassy in london, just meet the new investor, most of our vans about afghan. this done what it's like to be selling by the british foreign office and the bias in nature. nation media angela. can you judge my social media and tell us which 911 you think it's more devastating? ah, do 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 the 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 know. the western private military companies can in their turn use so called sub contractors from countries with trouble past the kansas quest. good. that had also been charles soldiers. i think i was my profession. i drove it wouldn't. it wouldn't work with no limit, malone and they were trying to be merciless killing machines. now they fight and die in other people's was people carol, lot one or a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and we started asking

ourselves, why did they die? why do? what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about the contractors. the day marks the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks. we're going to take a look at america's terror industrial complex. oh, i me 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 heroine. 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. so which means bands money, a favorite haunt, the drug addicts. it's easy to buy how she should be more heroine here. me neither during the soviet presence enough gunners 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 $100.00 band opium puppy cultivation, anywhere on afghanistan. soil the loop is to get on the little some of them minimum the soonest. the wish mr. mccarthy. question got the, what would you say this is of what was the family for one which is still get a in here will be national supply on the fish for me to green us americans. i mean, you go forward, but then i will go for just what it was not supposed to i this video was filmed in 2015. the numbers have only grown since then. i've got us down is now the undisputed world leader in opium production. i hope you failed acreage has now expanded to rival the size of some european

countries. afghanistan confidently hold 1st place in harrowing production. and that lead is growing every year by 2009. the corruption index afghan has been, is still the lowest or the next to lois. how did the african economies 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 where 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, it's produced enough canister and shipped all over the world through well established smuggling channels. around the globe, afghanistan's opium industry kills 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 see it, you go to meet a gun to black usually goes to prove these to mean you choose when it's done in you get to it with the gun justice you took me, ask you to come to go to conduct that a little boy, if you have to put just on the though should be good. so what do you

need done with americans of black? you'll probably begin you at the i told her i would give them. no, but it is all a chest dear, as with your permission to be all stung category and monthly. but the only real way to judge the 20 years of american presence in afghanistan is by looking at the abandoned military bases. no industrial or social facilities, whatever built in those years. in fact, throughout this time of get, this done continues to benefit from the soviet legacy side up on the status of a shot, or do say that you can put it on a or somebody can give me that. also with the as a very highly the duty showing you this much better,

but somebody will catch up with the know those channels to choose what the rules are. pretty rural. a genius for your son or or you're going to go pretty very can or that happens who's indeed a 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 salon tunnel, connecting the northern and central regions, as well as dams, oil dep owes factories, hospitals and schools. not to mention and irrigation system installed by soviet specialists that helped defeat hunger. ah, so i can look at the school which was loyal, awarded as an option. and i don't know, but i live in new colonial school,

but the most policies you have yet to edition for the district. i mean, it was roger with dora. i think you guys came, would you please if she was not only you can usually go ahead. i'm going to get out of the family. absolutely. it was completely over and let us get valuable when you process relish me . as i said, cutting them, i get an exercise to guess and i will look at that. it was 3 semesters goes to that machine. it goes fast, some emotion which interest you or mr. mission to mr. glam studies, a map of his homeland woven into an oriental carpet. he knows every province, city and village, all kish luck. like the back of his hand. as much as a general shape. after the nudge below,

government was overthrown in the spring of 99200 jello was one of many high ranking off gunny officials who were forced to flee. the country was repeated for the position. and i mean, it's just, i haven't really been able to spend that anymore, but initially show the source of all to initial and from the 1st of all my, all of my, of my see me national talk about with the start. i don't, i didn't you still ship here, we don't. then you just wait a little boy. i mean i don't for the don't look to

see my address about another one of the go to it. i'm going to do that for you. that's what the mother prior goes up, southern field protest and that knows them do not much go in the us for several decades. their homeland has no, no peace and no more people than ever are trying to flee the country because of the reasons with it. origin which i don't know, the thumbs engine is not on against you. would you turn that through the origin which and through the but the case through him, private based on new winners. and when the soviets invaded and 1979,

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

by doors extreme, this elements, terrorists who don't want to educate. we must add toward resolve to send our school children to school or go to school. never give up on that. i would. i'm sure many years off campus would give me financial guys. i don't buy a i buy all my teachers. that's not an almost friday at the last time i buy it from the future. so for i can watch kaiser report me the news.

oh in oh oh i oh this this enter in a couple was established in 2017 dozens of african women attended here every day. tell us hong kong campaign well educated with strong leadership skills and business pro s. there are very few people like her enough, janice done every day. she makes her way to the studio where she is greeted by waiting yoga, and susie asked us to send a mask to that hall at the header, sitting on behind these walls, does

a very different f ganna stuff. when i got the loan, i get all of my check pushes. she doesn't want to be on the same level you can use despite all the precautions. she started receiving phone threats on bad glass. how about it or not that the media meet chap, fate pitched him. i have had some sort of command on them have each on last some but now with the taliban back. we can't reveal her face.

mm. white flags with the black shonda. now fly over every state building, not justin ball, 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 salon is boarded up. women are obliged to wear the bercher. as a result, both demand and price have increased $10.00 times since the tele been arrived. and this is just the beginning. i believe in the strictest interpretation of shari'a 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 backward 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. in a 990 s, the taliban imposed the harshest restrictions on women female afghanistan. it could be stoned to death, but failing to worry about joe in public. they were forbidden 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 credibility. they are often

contradicted by the facts. yes, we are in this moment to the very, very difficult spot. there is immense violence is there is immense under, in our country. there's a vacuum filter of the sun. 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 while female soldiers fear for their life. the taliban see that despite shari'a 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 a 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 generalists, 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 the only ones trying to leave ferrying life under the taliban. ordinary folk from the provinces had to abandon their homes,

too. they tried to save their families from the atrocities of law in the sunset 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 to the refugee camp. it is 30 families, mostly ethnic. it was backs me thought a model of madame was in a party of us. the moon is bought it, give it all that on a shout. a jack the she's not bonus. jag, sell me on my the to jeremy of mid doesn't go home is done up on my way. don't forget to call them out the pay out of that. i didn't call them calling you to

say that about the whole number, but that's, you know, i rags blown in the wind fabric bleached by the scorching sun, a half hazard array of impromptu huts that sprouted in the middle of the desert. people who abandoned their homes and applause had been gardens. now lived in these squandered conditions for a year. ah, i knew still going to guide me. yeah. i mean, you have a good luck. i'm. you're going to be the mother that if you go i will need to move the color that nuclear beta from the can you get my new sticky more gel? another know number more minute over the bodies, our with it at all. and then they got their mom you had in the you got to do that, can you know some of the heavy stuff i'm with them when they're going to, i don't know, maybe late the muscular let me know what's

going on and i've already push it done and now during my daughter join mama telling us, and i mean did again i'm, it was to go home or comes in the show like what i can if i'm in the comes in, they get me get in the you make them on a show a bit much as diameter mother enjoy was going on. i was cutting me quite a bunch of times. i don't show any english. i can only if i'm you know young women are shot when they get the job job multiple them. i give me a good monday, monday and i'm going and even here the refugee is worry about that children. even among those who regard

themselves as a literate, there's a strong awareness that a good education is critical for their country's future model. well, i'm going to send an obama as this is not the set. it's for jaylen does not it more? i'm going to look at what is done at the brother the end of the good. she's in this get 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 business, the mercenary contracting firms that do all the cooking and cleaning and, and work that the troops don't do anymore. they made pockets in 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 contingents. at the same

time, by some estimates, the african national army police lost more than 65000 troops. the total number of civilian dances 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, some i have a feeling we need to go. so i was up with the but the much the amusement of wisdom when okay, do you size my to so, i mean, i can finish that, not just because i would. so then you would just a 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 it initially the bite and administration plans to end the 20 year war by 91120th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in us history to which they responded with the longest ever military campaign, but they failed to make a graceful exit. their withdraw was more like a hasty retreat and bite and certainly didn't expect this 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 destroying terrorism and i'm going to send was it achieved? yes and no. okay. it 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 okay, to look at syria here, the united states is arming and financing the nist of france. that's kind of 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. oh i use the ne, march the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks. we're going to take a look at americas terror, industrial complex join

me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. in the reports of injuries and frances rallies against culver restrictions turned violent with police deploying tear gas and pepper spray and don grenade to disperse. crowds of enraged protests. give 10 months said $25.00 days on which is american legacy. they're stronger than sabotaged equipment. a country brought to ruined at steel in control of the exec.