Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- democracynow.org - The U.S. is intensifying its air war in Afghanistan as U.S. Central Command has announced it is shifting military resources from Iraq and Syria back to Afghanistan, where the United States has been fighting for over 16 years in the longest war in U.S. history. U.S. Air Force Major General James Hecker recently said Afghanistan has “become CENTCOM’s main effort.” The news comes after a particularly bloody period in Afghanistan. Despite the spiraling violence, President Trump recently ruled out negotiations with the Taliban during a meeting of members of the United Nations Security Council. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll about his new book, “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
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Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires.
Yes it will be the graveyard of pakistan
And Pakistan offers funeral services.
@@kuntalsarma5106 the last will be the graveyard for endia insha Allah
Slam👋 ISI to defeat all devils
@@muhammadarsalankarim1191 Pakistan administers the poison
Mad respect to Steve for investing his time on Directorate S".
Ghost Wars was one of the most engaging, informative and entertaining books I've had the pleasure of reading.
And tragic
@@kimberlycrichton2932
Was the book profitable?
I just don't see most Americans caring enough to read this book, much less buying it.
Amazing book. Read it 17 years ago and I’m actually currently rereading it now.
You know, when you stick to FACTS you put out pretty good stuff.
There are no good guys, and there are no bad. There are only humans
Why, o why is this so hard to understand
Yes, we're all human. But humans believe in, and carry out good, and bad ideas, values, behaviours etc. If a bunch of dudes showed up in your neighbourhood, and turned it into something like Raqqa, Syria, would you honestly still believe what you wrote?
Amazing. Thank you.
Great insight and analysis by Prof. Coll. Very pertinent questions by interviewers.
The Pakistani ISI is Such a Strong Organisation
Ofcourse no doubt
Yes, to protect Pakistan. Not like Indian R&AW that funds / sponsors terrorists against Pakistani homeland. Afghan government helps them by providing them support and terror training camps that have been used as launching pads for bomb attacks in Pakistan.
Just recently a car bomb blast occurred in Pakistan’s second largest city of Lahore. Fortunately the perpetrators were caught within 24 hours and interrogated. The mastermind of the attack lived in Pakistan and Dubai. He confessed that Indian intelligence agency R&AW
( Research and Analysis Wing ) had funded him to carry out this attack. Pakistan has the money trail with bank accounts of those who funded the attack. He is living in Delhi.
But unfortunately, the western media will never tell its citizens the truth. India has been funding terrorism against Pakistan through the Af-Pak border for over a decade now.
Which is why Pakistan doesn’t want India to continue attacking its territory through proxies.
they are dogs to England!
You mean an evil organization.
@@bannedone3ice138 Where are the people who planned and coordinated the attacks on Mumbai in 2008 that killed well over 100 people, mostly civilians?
Oh right, they’re in Pakistan.
Barnett R. Rubin who wrote the Cohen lyrics down the day OBL was killed wrote an excellent book called Afghanistan From The Cold War Through The War On Terror. For those interested in this subject.
great man!
The problem is that to many people find more profit in choas.
16 years???? Nobody wins in Afghanistan.
I am rereading your book on 08/21. Opportunities we're lost with such ultimate consequences.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa has claimed that there are no safe havens for terrorists in his country and asked the US to stop blaming Islamabad for its failure in Afghanistan.
Gen Bajwa asked the American leadership to instead search for the reasons for its failures in the war-torn country.
Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/62970015.cms?
It’s very simple You American invaded Afghanistan and support Pakistan’s enemy India and played dirty game against Pak and in result ISI done his best job to protect Pakistan which was its responsibility same as CIA MI6 does for their country- well done 👍 Pakistan well done ISI ✌️✌️
Shabash Weldon for the brave reply
well, if Pakistan is providing safe heaven to taliban and ISI is helping taliban in order to defeat america and Nato allies in Afghanistan than it sound beautiful that Pakistan which many Americans doesn't even know that name is capable of defeating not just superpower america but world's strongest force Nato as well and not just in a year but in 20 years of war. wow what an achievement hahaha.
Hello i am from 2021 and we fucked America and all its allies
Pakistan beat Soviets in Afghanistan with American money and then beat America in Afghanistan with American money. Hahaha
Your point?
At 6:07 the absolute truth
So you ppl came to afghanistan just to catch pak nuclears weapons...so should isi help you to get their nuclear nukes.they are usa servant.is it
Steve Coll is encyclopedic. In the endless Afghanistan war, he exposes lies & ignorance & failures.
What strategy?
Is it true Karzai was formerly Taliban?
No, that's an idiotic statement. The Taliban killed his father, but he is sympathetic to them due to Pashtun ethno-nationalism.
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5:47
I would call this a foreign entanglement, wouldn't you?
Own mistakes thrown on ISI
18:00
how can you be blind when you planed it??? they needed to blame a figure head and if you were listening Bin bin said he did not do it when first ask he was totally blind-sighted it on film stuffed somewhere the media either compliant of to busy putting on their faces
Did I see Trolls in the background? Hi-ya fellas!
Our interest is to not have people come here and commit acts of terror - such tragic stupidity and criminality. And now Trump, surely he’ll understand the nuances. And tragic stupidity and criminality his defining character traits....
If there were a few more entities such as ISI in the world, the US imperialism/hegemony wouldn't have killed so many innocent civilians around the globe.
Islamic republic of Pakistan new foreign policy is peace prosperity and friendship with all nations,
He could not understand = He understood. Trust Coll? No.
America gives billion of dollars for Pakistan military which is the root of extremism but fights in Afghanistan against extremism which shows that extremism is just an excuse
To be fair, Pakistan's policy in Afghanistan has NEVER changed. I am not arguing its ethics/morality, just saying that it can't be blamed for deception.
Yes, Pakistan has always supported terrorists and never stopped doing so.
Do not make Kabul another Saigon. Make Pakistan pay for their duplicity.
come kid that will be ur last war son. believe me this is not 1990s pak.
This comment didn't go well. The US deptt of culture should screenshort this comment and show it to the American Nation in a zoo or a museum. Hahahaha c0wbois
Listen to the lies spewing out of this guys mouth.
how so, my righteous dude..? Have you ever read a book?