This excerpt from the conclusion of FRONTLINE’s documentary series “America and the Taliban†focuses on the chaos at Kabul airport where 25-year-old Afghan dentist Fada Mohammed lost his life attempting to flee on a U.S. military plane as the Taliban took over.
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The three-part series investigates how the U.S. lost the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Part Three examines the last few years of America’s longest war, including negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban, the U.S.’s rushed exit from Afghanistan and what was left behind.
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” premiered on April 11 and is available to watch here: https://bit.ly/3NbU328 Part Three premieres 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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Our great government created this nightmare scenario!!!!!!!!¡!.
0:28 what was being blurred out?
😂The same thing will happen to Ukraine.Pack up and leave business done as usual.
Jj
No we don’t, many of these are double dealers. I never trusted Iraqi or Afghani translators or government forces. They were easily turned!!!
Once we gave up the base…we gave up orderly control. Our military soldiers should not have died. Very sad.
America is the big enemy of the innocent people of Afghanistan
the fear of the regime made them so blind they chose guaranteed death by climbing on that plane. humans can't survive at 30000 feet
This is incredibly sad, hut these people had a very good reason for fleeing. The effects of which are now obvious.
They went for their desires and their desire was to live in USA and have more money and live like infidels with negligence as our elders always said not to choose the life of negligence and greed they died for this world , money and they will inshallah rise in hell with you infidels they choose and sacrifice for this life which will be over soon over next life which is forever
Currently Afghanistan is in good hands and people live in peaceful environment. The idiots who flew the country by rushing towards Kabul Airport and hopped into American C-17 airplane, were thugs & bandits disguised themselves as ordinary people. Those people never had life threatening issues. They all lied & filled false cases just to be accepted by U.S & EUROPEAN countries. Taliban were never threat for these social service seekers. In fact, the whole country is in Pease & the current GVT is working on dozens of projects. Girls schools will be open soon after the curriculum is completed along with proper school uniforms.
I believe western countries should deport those pleasure seeker Afghans back to Afghanistan. Shame on these people who choose usa over their loved ones. Most of these runaways went to Europe just to receive social service benefits. They thought Taliban were Zombies, and they will exterminate people once they took over the country. Now, everyone knows that Taliban have formed the best GVT ever since 1979. For the past 20 years, Afghans lived in fear & experienced the worst, unofficial, slaved GVT which was made of bunch of killers & thugs. Men & women lived in fear of being killed,Kidnapped, or harassed by local gunmen. 20 years of corrupted GVT & Spending billions of dollars, Didn't do anything positive for Afghans…
and in the meantime Biden was playing video games
STOP hypocrisy , if America goes to India and tell the Indian people come we take you for free to America , all Indian will be at the Airport 😅 do you think people are stupid for reporting like that?
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this is all lie and propaganda americans are beated by the taliban
bunch of thieves and cowards running away
I sympathize with the Afghans who'd been promised they could come to America if they fought for us and haven't been able to yet. We promised. But they aren't in much worse shape than ordinary Afghans; they are hungry and poor, and living under an authoritarian government. But they aren't being hunted down by the Taliban. Everyone had assumed that there would be a bloodbath when the Taliban took the government held areas, but it didn't happen. The Taliban followed the Afghan tradition of declaring an amnesty for their former enemies, and have generally stuck to it. There were some killings by members of the Taliban, but they don't appear to be widespread or systematic. Over two million Afghans had either served us, or were in the Afghan Army and security forces fighting the Taliban at some point. The NY Times researched the number and came up with "500 or more", so 0.025% of the 2 million. (NYT, 11/30/21, "The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then they executed them." ) The French, with about the same population (~40 million) killed over 10,000 collaborators after WWII. That isn't to say that the Taliban aren't authoritarian or brutal, but the guys waiting on their SIV's to come through aren't on any death list. They aren't a threat to the Taliban, who plenty of other things on their plate.
Vote for Biden! He will ensure more Americans are left behind, and are ally’s lose lives. I blame every single Biden voter for this! This didn’t have to happen!
War is Hell! Don't START WARS, ESPECIALLY WITH NO END GAME? KOREA, VIETNAM, IRAQ#2, I understand why we went into Afghanistan rite after 9/11 but this was 20+ years later. BinLadin was probably in Pakistan a week or less after we invaded SMFH.
What the Biden Administration did with their ‘pull out’ was so shameful and set a precedent for the world to never trust the USA. This will take generations of trust building to repair.
this will likely be the biggest black mark on Biden's presidency. Sure you can blame it all you want on Trump or Obama leaving him the bag, but regardless this was a tragedy
Not a peep about american service men opening fire at the airport. Apparently that has already disappeared down the memory hole.What a rediculuous segment.
Petraeus is right ,but why didnt he do something about leaving all those who 'helper's. what a vile a$$hole.
It was only after 20 years of american intervention ,endless bombings , empty promises and after we paid certain warlords cash not to shoot us, the US leaves and frontline pimps the US as a savior. To paraphrase Tacitus , We sodomize afghanistan and call it peace.
Thanks to Biden they are better armed now than when we first went over there….
Great job Joe! Glorious exit 💀
Clinging to a departing plane is a strange choice
If you announce free trips to western countries, you will get a stampede anywhere in the world. The people did not fear the Taliban, they wanted economic opportunity. As proof, remember the Afghans who got off the plane once they heard the place was heading towards Uganda?
â€Innocent lives lost due to Joe Biden!â€
~CSD.
We should never be surprised why the world hates us
FFS PBS you are supposed to be democrats don't let the home side down Jesus Murphy never the truth NEVER EVER
Biden has blood on his hands
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Good that we left and hopefully never go back.
As if America went to Afghanistan to save people… So amazing way western media turns an illegal invasion into sympathy to Afghan people. According to UN 2016Â 3,498 died due to the invasion of Afghanistan.
America and their western alliance should held accountable for their criminality..
Humans not treating humans with humanity. There was, is a MORAL OBLIGATION to have rescued those who aided the Americans. Absolutely horrific.
Funny how Trump supporters don’t see that these people fleeing Afghanistan are to the majority Afghan favored Taliban as BLM is to MAGA. If we are not supporting BLM at home then we cannot support the similar version coming from abroad, especially wild animals like this. Jumping on a plane? Glad he never made it to America to get near anyone’s teeth! Poor decision making like that is bound for failure and leeching off our very generous American welfare system.
USA Government 😡
You should also make it clear that it was under the Trump Administration that the date was given for the removal of those troops. Not to mention the deal he made with the Taliban that released thousands of Taliban fighters onto the Afghani people
Thank you Frontline for ur amazing work and journalism n always getting the truth out there
WE NEED THE FULL VIDEO OF THOSE DUMB ASS FALLING OUT OF PLANE
This is so sad for the innocent people
The demons want the USA to fall….BUT WE WILL NOTâ¤
Everyone can thank the fake mental moron Joe Biden and the entire Democratic Party for this all happening. This absolutely would not have happened under President Donald trump.
WATCH THE COVENANT
OUT IN THEATERS. STAY THRU THE CREDITS.
Neanderthal Barbarians.
The taliban should have been wiped out after 2001. And not allowed to reestablish itself. The immigrants who worked to go to the US should have been facilitated to enter the US and evacuated safely.