0 heroine, no heroine. and after the 911 attacks, they got to a point by 2010 where they were producing 93 percent of the world. terran 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, which means dance money. a favorite haunt, the drug addicts. it's easy to buy. how she, she opium or 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 mohammed omar, and opium poppy cultivation, anywhere on us canister soil the over live it's you get on the little some of them minimum the soonest. the limits of the question got the, what does this is this of what they're looking for money for, which is or still get a and he'll be nipple supply on the fish for me to green us and they come for literally i need to go with but then i woke up or just ship with my variables, not the pursues. this video was filmed in 2015. the numbers have only grown since then. i've got this down. is nelda undisputed, a world leader in opium production. the field

acreage has now expanded to rival the size of some european countries. afghanistan confidently holds 1st place in harrowing production. that lead is growing every year in by 2009. the corruption index is still the lowest or the next to lois. how does the african economies survive through opium? through drug trade? there 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 they're heroin addicts. and so we never did anything.

ah, toby, it's produced in afghanistan, shipped all over the world through well established smuggling channels around the globe of gunners times opium industry, kills hundreds of thousands of people. every the explosive growth in opium production is one of the main byproducts of the us presence in afghanistan. and arguably, americans only real legacy after leaving the country. no substantial infrastructure has been built in 20 years. scorched is all that the of god is have left i still will when you sign, you see if you go there, i mean to go to black. usually goes to prove these to mean you choose been done in you get to is 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 just on the that should be good. so what

do you need done? voice cur, americans of black. you will probably begin you at the top, but i will get them now, but it is all a chest. as with your permission, you have your some money, 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 him, those he is in fact throughout this time of dennis done continues to benefit from the soviet legacy side up on the status quo. a teller, i've said just about to say that you can put your money that you or somebody gave me that was a as a very duty to show you this much better.

but up those channels. that's what the rules are. rules ideas for your son or or you're going to go pretty know what he can do that. ah, indeed it's going to 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, let me still wish it was little of all that i learned. i guess what i learned from

colonial is co capital mythologies. you have your edition for these. i mean, you can work with dora, i thought actually you guys came, so would you please if she was on your, for the last only, can you go go ahead. i'm on the list and i look at what he was completely very much as could valuable when you process the leash vision. ah. as soon as i got into my existence to get and i will look for it when it was 3. so starting serious goes to 0 measure, it goes past which interest you or mr. mission to said mr. glam 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. and a general shape like

h after the nudge below government was overthrown in the spring of 1992 gl jello was one of many high ranking up gunny officials who were forced to flee. the country was repeated for them after the luster function. and i mean, it's just what happened and it was never an indication that any but initially show the source of what's initially based on the 1st of the prettiest net on my, all of them. i see me national talk about with the us. yes. did you still ship here? we don't you just wait a little boy. i mean i don't for the was it doesn't look to

see my adverse going about another minute i'm going to i'm going to do that because that's what the mother prior goes up. surgical progress and that it was them doing that, you know, but yes, i was going for several decades. their homeland has no, no peace and no more people than ever trying to flee the country. this is the same with the origin, which i don't know the thumbs isn't it. i don't think, i guess it would you through the through the origin which is through the but the case through the private based on new enters. and we and when the soviets invaded in 1979,

we get into some of that history because it's very important. the u. s. 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 reactionary, backward islamic extremist elements of the id where the ones united states put in 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 involving my own daughters are going to school in some they go to school right now. they go to shop, they go to pay the food because we are talked by

doors, extremist elements, terrorists who don't want us educated. we must add to orders or to send our school children to school or go to school. never give up on that. i will. i'm sure majors off goes will give me the saying, look around attributed to the prophet mohammed, the dreams are threefold. sometimes they represent divine guidance, sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes there about the conflicts of daily 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 amounts to satanic possession when they turn to and on, what can they count in this time of existential struggle?

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it's an open secret that private military companies have been playing rolling on conflicts worldwide. u. s. 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, but 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 they have also been child soldiers. i think i was my drug profession or drug is his work would be for

me, it would be fun with linda malone, which are in to be merciless killing machine. 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 their contractors. the in o o, o i o. this yoga center, a couple was established in 2017 dozens of afghan women attended here every day.

hong hill coming up on county. 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 enthusiasts and my son, the mom like capsule, sandy to that hall at the header city. the behind these walls does a very different f ganna stuff. well then i got them on, i kept getting moto to try to check,

pushing them on their pounding and my family can use despite all the precautions. she started receiving phone threats. but i do have my how about it or not that made me chap fate bother him. i had some sort of command on them. have a laugh. but now with the taliban back, we can't reveal her face the white flags with the black shudder. now fly over every state building. not justin

couple 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 in cable have been painted over beauty cell on boarded up. women are obliged to wear the burger. as a result, both demand and price have increased $10.00 times since the totally 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 certainly the plight of women in afghanistan is not something that i'm very optimistic about me in the 990 s. the taliban imposed the harshest

restrictions on women female afghanistan is could be stoned to death. but failing to worry about joe in public, they will submit to leave their homes without a male relative. women were denied both in education and careers and even medical care. all these rules were enforced by the religious belief. now that 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 spiders who is this immense unger in our country. there's vacuum failed to get the sun and there was the presence of the international community in americans 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. italy been say 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 africans have fled to other

countries as refugees. people started leaving 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. but after the taliban, the number of people wanting to flee has increased dramatically. they include not only women, but generalist 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 filtering 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 on 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. just 30 families, mostly ethnic. it was backs me thought a model. madame. listen, a party of us the morning. get good that all that on a shout. a james, she's not bonus. jag mitch's the mail i didn't to jamie of mid golem is done up on my way. i'm away. don't forget to call them out the pay out of that. i didn't call them calling you to say that about that whole number of attention 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 the plaza ban gardens of now lived in these squandered conditions for a year. i used to live this guy. and then the other, i like i'm, you're going to be the mother that you'd be good. i will need to move the colors at that beta. give you a minute to get a job number moment. everybody's out with it at all and then they got their heading. oh, you got to do that kind of some of the heavy stuff. i'm one of them when they're going to, i don't know, maybe the muscular megan, the mom called on and got him. push it down. and now dory and my daughter join me on my cell and doesn't mean it again i'm, it was to go home or i'm comes in the show like what i can remember if i'm not sure

that comes in again, we get into you make out with them on a shawl a bit much as diameter, the engine was yanked up when i was getting all the water, but i don't show any english. i can only if i'm you know, i'm in a shot where there's an ocean, the job, a 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 illiterate as a strong awareness that a good education is critical for that countries future matter. the way i want to send going up almost as this is not the set. it's for jaylen does not it anymore. i'm going to want to send the brother and the good she's in this get what

a son of worth. 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 buckets 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 then never works. you know, there's an old saying at the cia 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 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. from the last more than $65000.00 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's and drug. 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 junior that's a few weeks ago. so i was of the but the much the amusement of when, when organ size my to so, i mean, i can not just us, you would. so then you would just a little ha, actually sure. what is it showing us? the curve goes, i'm not them was, 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 and 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. abide 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 ends up taking 3 minutes before this lapse. the main goal is to strong terrorism and africana then 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 okay, to look at syria here, the united states is arming and financing the nist of france. that's an i'll kind of how do you explain that to the american people? this is the same group, or at least an off shoot of the group that murdered 3000 americans on one day. and

now we're sending them weapons and money the the drug started as a way to come back, a great problem. what's the, what is 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 tragic, 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 with the i have often said transparency for the powerful pharmacy for the last bit cares about privacy. what people care about is power. julian, a son just become a symbol of the battles of brevity, information is power. that's what's going on, a huge struggle with governments and corporations who want to keep information secret and others who think democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what to do. watch houses help to shift the conversation around transparency

. see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer in such a situation. it's remarkable. survive the this okay. and on the 20th of us or the 911 terror attack, the f. b, i is released, the declassified document into who carried out the atrocity with the document to essentially repeating known facts. so ever adding no information on possible saudi involvement report suggest the u. s. mistakenly targeted an african aid work and it drove strike, killing 10 members of one family. this coming up to me here from a former american road operator who tells us of his own experiences of killing innocent people. every shot that we turn like.