A new FRONTLINE series probes mistakes behind the U.S. failure in Afghanistan — including errant “night raids” that repeatedly killed Afghan civilians, and for whom, according to former deputy national security adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, “we virtually never held anyone accountable.”
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Watch an excerpt from Part Two of “America and the Taliban,” a three-episode FRONTLINE documentary series investigating how the U.S. lost the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
Part One of “America and the Taliban” premiered April 4 and is available to watch here: https://bit.ly/401wk7H
Part Two of “America and the Taliban” premieres on April 11 and Part Three on April 25, 2023.
“America and the Taliban” is a FRONTLINE production with RAIN Media, Inc. The producers are Brian Funck, Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith. The writers and directors are Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith. The correspondent is Martin Smith. The co-producer is Scott Anger. The executive producer and editor-in-chief for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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Then you talk to many former US soldiers and they can't even talk about what they did because its so horrific, and many are broken by it. Not many winners in war if there are 4-5 times more suicides than casualties on the battlefield. And that's part of the reason gun culture is so big in the US too- is so many wars. What are you going to do though, ban all these military personnel from owning weapons once they've killed a bunch of people and come back home?
Holding American officials accountable for war crimes? HA. You have a better chance of catching Big-foot than that ever happening.
They just killed millions of men, women,kids, left behind millions of wedoes,orfins, with out taking care off, wherever they went, and if those people being attacked start to take arms against those barbarians,they starts to call them terrorists, extremist….wow
The brutality of US and other parties
Taliban used civilians as human shields
😂Same folks who want to send Russia to the ICC haaaaaaa bunch of hypocrites.
When they kill innocent people it’s a mistake and they think sorry is enough. But if Taliban kill any of the troops then they are terrorist 😂
Please give everyone involved in the making of this documentary an award for their wonderful work! 🙏🏽
Either you hold criminals accountable or God does it. Your crimes have been registered, I guess you call it karma, but at the end criminals always pay for it, even those criminals you see as "American heroes", just lol. Think of that American sniper (Chris Kyle) who got murdered in the US, he escaped safely from the War Zone while he got murdered in the "safety" of his country. Everything happens in the worldly life and on this earth with the permission of God. If u think u can go thousands of miles to the other end of the world and kill innocent people (for the sake of Halliburton) with impunity and portray urself as a "hero", lol, know that God Almighty is the Most Just Judge and no one will escape His punishment.
Hold trump accountable
And that's why USA isn't apart of International crime court, because that will send many to prison.
Great short documentary behind the US failure in Afghanistan. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx4sharing.
same for Vietnam war , korean war, gulf war….
not a single person has ever being held accountable for Civilian Deaths in a war, unless they lost the war.
That's gut wrenching.
So much concern for civilian deaths . but no concern for how many the Taliban killed. Your hypocrisy is lothsome.
Americans continued to kill civilian children and their parents by design, not mistakes. It is no wonder that Americans are hated outside NATO countries.
notice how they're being reported only AFTER the fact… from the same media funded by the US gov… the irony.. I'll fuck you up and when I'm satisfied I'll send my people to tell your story for some PR points
And then they ask , why do you hate us , we only want to bring you freedom and democracy and Macdonald's
This was a good documentary, and hopefully there is more accountability in the future. 😭😭
This is an authentic journalism
Got caught up in this more times then the enemy, haunts me still.
Not just "virtually"….
Americans still won't hold them accountable. Therefore, we are happy that America is destroying itself. Your own Bible says God punishes an entire people when they are collectively wrongdoers.
Maybe they shouldn't have harbored Muslim terrorists! No sympathy. They're not going through tell you the truth.
Defund PBS and NPR
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I'll