Why do you post 10 different comments under the same video?

@Iptomtom because I can? I’m allowed to express multiple thoughts just like you’re allowed to scroll past them if you don’t like what I’m saying.

That should also be the official slogan of my life. Lol

@Jim R hard same.

For real

That's just the tip of the iceberg, we Afghans who managed to come to US are the lucky ones, compared to those still stuck there with an uncertain future. I do want to thank the assistance and help of Americans like you, we really really appreciate it. Thank you !!

Did they mention how the male Afghans deserted their post and left you to die?

That’s an incredible story. I hope something swings in good fortune for them soon, far fetched as it may be.

Comedian in the making

I’m not going to pretend I have any idea what life is like for them now, but it is just heartbreaking and infuriating at the same time to think about what women and girls are going through. The thought that girls who have grown up in the last decade or so were able to go to school and grow up in a world where deciding their future and making something of their lives according to the freedom to make their own choices was a possibility for them, that they could look at their future and decide what they wanted it to be, and achieving it was a possibility, and then basically overnight having that taken from them and seeing them oppressed once again.. It’s just too much. And none of us, anywhere, who are fortunate enough to have been born in a land where we are free to determine our own lives should be ok with it. I am grateful you exist, and for what you do. I think it’s incredible. It’s important and it matters. But I will never stop hoping and waiting for the day that the rest still suffering there, having watched all future possibilities dissolve for them, to be helped and have those future possibilities rightfully returned to every one of them.

Is it not wonderful that in this day and times a show that actually tries it educate and inform us about what is really going on in the World; is not only entertaining and enjoyable to watch, but a big hit.

We should help

@@batmansavage9121 Exactly, thank you.

Are we the world police or the world plunderers

@@batmansavage9121 Every time we do help we are vilified more. At some point this can only be solved by Afghans. You cant not want us there but also want our money. As long as thugs are in power, it's no win for everyone

$2000 if the Yell Bag was in the same building as an MRI machine.

Nah, you'd get charged 300 dollars for the right to scream into the bag.

Facts

Oh look at Mr. Fancypants over here who has a bag that's in his network..

@@Woad25 ikr. I'm in Romania and we lived 5 years in USA. Took us about a moth for doctors tell my husband he ripped a knee tendon, meanwhile he walked around with a ripped ligament heavily sedated to get all the approval papers from romanian insurers. but it did not cost us thousands of $ like it would have in US. also he had to have some tooth implants and they are 1/3 or 1/5 o US prices. salaries are lower here as well, but as an immigrant in US we made less than 1/2 of citizens so our quality of life in US was not much better.

You can suppress the taliban, but as soon as you stop, they are back. Biden is right for once. Arabs love to talk about islam and it´s laws all day, so you can´t force western ideas of women´s rights or blabla upon them. They did that to the native americans and ended badly. Leave the afghani people alone. They love islamic extremist, so that´s what they get. John is soros puppet anyway.

if only the army we spent two decades building there didn't crumble in days. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink..or fight to sustain it's freedoms.

@@erichancock6815 If only your government didn't sell out the Afghan people to the Taliban during the Doha Agreements (2020), the people there might've had a chance to build a proper country!

💙

R u still in Afghanistan?? Or you living somewhere else now.

I never miss "I just wanted to see a comedy show and now I am sad with Johny Joy-killer"

I never miss “I came here for a giggle and left crushed by the horrors of humanity” with Dr Xenon Bloom

At the same time is the US not supposed to cut of the taliban from those funds, this show sometimes makes valid points but overlooks the reality

@@MartiniPinball I believe that anything that harms many innocent people should never be done without a well calculated plan in mind, which the US clearly does not have.

They were unwilling to defend their own country. Fuck em. They develop their own Taliban against their Taliban fat cats or they die.

How could it get more radicalized?

@@perteadsf4914 There is a plan. "The Taliban won't do what our corporations tell them, so we are going to cut Afghans off and let them whither because they just don't matter anymore."

Way to go, new Zealand! You guys suck!

I know it's not the right place for jokes but I love reading this as "I'm a grown ass-man."

@@onkelpappkov2666 😂😂

Thank you for you wonderful words about the people of Afghanistan. I live in North America and it has been gut wrenching for me to see what has happened in the last few years not to mention the past 40 years to my country and people. I was born in Afghanistan when Russians invaded, things have been tough for a long time but things are extremely dire right now. People are starving, they can’t get care, it’s horrible.

@@artemisqueen2 i feel so bad for those still trapped under Taliban rule. I have a friend who's whole family is still there.

Yeah, i hear you. I have family there. Aside from the concern about the future of girls and women, i am very worried about people and kids starving. Its been very hard for me to watch.

It's appalling they pay for bodily organs. This is how an industry of "organ harvesting" against people's will or knowledge begins. That's why you can donate a kidney in the US, but you cannot legally sell one.

Watch her need a kidney transplant and her father was an exact match. Bum bum buuuuummmmmm

Same to the mom who had to sell her daughter to feed her other children. Props to her. It must have been hard. Her kid is probably a sex slave as I type this comment but it had to be done to feed the other kids. Mad respect to her.

As a father it's not even a question of doing it or not. You just do it, whatever your child needs. I'm heartbroken over the pain and suffering so many children and their parents are faced with on a daily basis. Fuck.

I'd stab myself 50 times for my daughter to come back.

How do you feel about his US soldier wife?

LMAO you deserve the Taliban

I don't I think it's nice gesture but if they won't stand up to the talibán were just feeding the new generation of talibán fighters

W🤯W! Afghanistan people who played both sides of To destabilizing their own country are able to cash 💸 💰 out here in americaKKK on the backs of u.s. taxpayers!

I think the solution to Afghanistan's problem should come from within. The U.S poured hundreds of Billions into the country and made no significant difference. Can't be asking countries in recession for further Billions now. If ya'll don't handle it yourselves, then no one can. Heaven helps those who help themselves!

And anyways true

It's the state of the world.

I think the fact that he actually had to say it out loud this time is very telling.

Are you being sarcastic ? That's what John does.... bring up important yet troubling topics. So what's your point ?

It's so nice to see Rat Hitler bringing so mu much joy to the world.

@@HOTD108_ Sind nicht Amerika und die westlichen Barbaren, laut den Römern, die Bösen?

could you really expect anything different from a deeply misogynistic culture? they don't want to change and instead of spending billions of dollars over there we should fix our own culture and society and infrastructure

Where was this in the video? I must've missed it.

It's not a sibling of, but is definitely a first-cousin to, the statement "Overturning Roe doesn't mean your state will outlaw ALL abortions! What nonsense! It just rightly returns that decision to your state!*" (*Which if this conversation is being had near you, you can bet your state is definitely going to try and ban all abortion) Their deeply misogynist culture wears it like clothes. Our deeply misogynist culture wears it like a tattoo and covers it with a cheap suit.

@@kitcoffey7194 Look, I don't want to start an argument but... Are the taliban then only ones with "culture" over there? I'm pretty sure the women who have been forced out of jobs, education and any freedom they had, do not want to be a part of this misogynistic culture, and I'd be willing to bet a good amount of men would agree with them. I understand the instinct of washing ones hands and walking away from problems "over there", but many of the problems over there stem from actions of US. And even if they didn't, we are talking about people here. Everyone gets one life, and dooming thousands of lives as "not your problem" is just heartless.

@@chillphil967 It wasn't in this video, it was some interview I saw god knows where and when. My bet would be CNN in the first week of Taliban's new reign.

I agree, sitting here in Norway drinking my morning cup of tea. It's a perfect start!

This comment! Perfect! My Mondays start with this show!

Yepp, the depressed toucan is the best way to start my Spanish work week.

You want a cookie you dreamer - greetings from Switzerland

trully , greatings from greece

From the minute President Trump announced our withdrawal, I thought this was going to be a disaster ... for the Taliban. The world will see who they really are, how cruel, senseless, unreliable, unrealistic, incapable of running a country.

@@veramae4098 But at what cost?

The way Netflix pays for the production of exclusive shows leads to high cancellation or cessation rates of even popular and good shows after one or 2 seasons. They pay a small amount for the first season, slightly larger for season 2, then it balloons for a season 3 and beyond. Since they produce an entire season at once, and keep such strict metrics of viewership, they know when a show does well, but cancel it anyway to fund a lot of cheaper garbage or seasons 1/2 of other shows (filler for the platform). It's a pretty indefensible position by their leadership considering their revenue and profits. Netflix may have been the original leader in the streaming industry, but they threw it away. I'm well aware what the greedy corporate monopolies that own a lot of classics did by denying intellectual property to Netflix and also disapprove: everyone was making money with streaming services as distributors and customers were happy. Now it's nickel and diming unhappy customers and a real creativity drain with the endless churn of 98% bingable garbage. I would never pitch a show to Netflix. Or Fox. Surprised Spielberg signed on to do ten movies.

It would be great if the US government would work on their own government, homelessness and poverty in their own country vs meddling with other countries problems and leaving it in a mess they cannot culturally or religiously understand. Stop the financial criminals who sit behind a laptop at home first.

I am glad that they are looking back at afghanistan, but I wish they had covered it when it happened. Also, I really wish they would cover the crisis in Ukraine

america fails to learn from its mistakes and we all pay the price, and i say that as an american.

Anyone paying attention even a little wasn't surprised at what happened. We were there incompetently for 20 years. Getting out was never going to go smoothly, and could have gone much worse. Sadly, this is another Astro-Turf segment.

@@bitstreamintercept7272 "learn from" is way too much credit, that should really just be changed to "makes" cause we don't learn shit (we being the government and the people that vote these idiots and incompetent assholes in)

History: More people should read it.

Only difference is that the communist Vietnamese were good while the Taliban suck almost more than the US.

a few years from now we'll find out we found a reason to train and arm a new enemy.

Americans refuse to talk about how fucking evil we have become. But we love pointing fingers as we drone strike everyone and anyone

How about what the US is doing to the US? 500k jobs. 1.5 million new people. It's not sustainable.

@@JaysSavvy what new people? I see No masses of people moving in. Turn off Fox News

@@JaysSavvy it's the dam republicans

And as an Air-Bud fan i also appreciate the hard work John and his team did exposing the horrible treatment of Norman Snively at the hands of the Fernfield Police Department. #FreeNormSnively

He brings in many many MANY viewers, I think he's fine

I feel this show has lost its form for a while now and I think it's on its last season or 2

@@Theelby33 Seems about as funny, informative, and interesting as all the previous seasons. That's just me, I'm not sure of the viewership. Sure, the quality suffered due to covid, but I feel that it's in full form now.

@@kalen1702 Me too but I'm still in shock 😲 over Trevor Noah leaving Comedy Central I didn't know that his ratings were bad 😞 maybe 🤔 he can do show on Hulu or Netflix seems like more fellow Democrats are doing streaming now

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@@Venom-uw4nv Thanks. I wrote it late at night and I was going to say "The ice cream lady I've known for years" But decided to change it at the last minute.

👏🏽👏🏽🥰

Sounds as if you're doing more good than Mr. Oliver, who, I must point out, essentially said the root problem is that Afghanistan can't print its own currency, didn't bother to explain how that is, convinced us that we have to invest in persistent infrastructure rather than short term bandaids, and didn't include currency infrastructure. I mean, I'm not saying the State Department just dropped off a script...

@@MarcillaSmith The response of the International Community to the Afghan situation reminds me of the response of the epidemiological community to First covid-19 and now monkey pox. Self-inflicted wounds everywhere.

This was more like swinging, hitting a bunch of innocent bystanders in the skull, and still missing the ball

He's a UK-US Dual citizen,

There was a somewhat similar situation in Ireland in the 1970s. There were strikes leading to banks being closed for over half a year and they paid using cheques. Once they ran out of official cheques they made their own ones out of any paper or cigarette cartons and slapped on postage stamps to "legitimize" them. There was ofcourse the risk that a cheques wouldnt clear, so businesses (like bars) had to rely a lot on trust and relations with their customers.

We had the same thing in the Soviet Union. People had money, but often there wasn't anything to buy with it. Vodka was the best currency you could have, as every adult got an allotment, which for many wasn't enough. Not drinking had it's perks.

2.4 million Iraqi people were killed in the illegal Iraq invasion, and millions more combining Afghanistan with all the others and the sanctions and destruction of hospitals and cities, etc. It was genocidal. Especially when the government got support after making it about killing “Muslims” because Muslims are “evil terrorists and a threat to white western Christianity and morality” and whatever they meant by “democracy.” The USA shouldnt have ever been there. It ruined those nations for decades and decades to come because all America knows is destruction, and it has no idea how to build and mend.

Then they are just brainwashed into going in the first place. The idea that you think firstly as "purely a military viewpoint" shows the wrong kind of thinking in the first place. lol

"Too much achieved to leave, too much screwed up to stay." Just so true. But, the Afghans gave up in 15 days to the Taliban. The Russian's vichy government held out longer than ours did by 3 years.

@@RaveYoda But the schemer in chief at the time, who had four years to produce a gradual withdrawal, got terrorists released, negotiated only with the Taliban and not the central government, and pretty much guaranteed a disaster, just to sabotage the incoming President, one of the last poison pills of an ousted mogul who has lost what he got through hostile takeover. This is straight out of the late-nineties profiteering playbook.

We were unwilling to do what we needed to do to defeat the Taliban because we aren't cartoon villian evil and that's what it would have taken.

I still side with the decision of giving as little funding as possible and only under certain conditions like girls education and that it goes into healthcare too. But there is no coherent government in Afghanistan so how to even do that? It’s cruel to withhold funding but if everything would stay kind of the same apart from women’s rights being cut off more men will believe that the Taliban is actually not that bad after all. There were no real fights against them and that means that in heart people are somewhat comfortable with the idea of their ruling if it means peace. Very understandable but it comes with a very high price for all future generations and more suffering overall. The Taliban men are not real adults there are the egoistical children of war and will remain in that state because in their eyes they have fulfilled their deeds and expect now the reward. They are not educated people either. A retreat by the US was maybe necessary but the speed at which it was done was utterly irresponsible and the terrorism will not stop regardless. The Taliban needs a common enemy to justify their existence. I hope I’m wrong though.

When Russia invaded Ukraine we shouldn't have put sanctions on them?

This is the obviously the point of those conservative politicians, not some kind of mistake that you can correct by a proper analogy or clever quip. If Afghans are dead, they can't be a threat, or continue to be Muslims (which is the same thing in republican/democrat right-wing heads). Especially a child that is dead will not grow into a terrorist or into a Muslim. Can't argue with that. If you think about it, American, Russian, Chinese, Israeli or other conservative politicians always chose this approach and it's working. So why are people expecting any change?

And yet people always want to go with embargoes, sanctions, or blockades over a lot of other measures. This is somehow seen as a compromise to be tough, but not as aggressive as something like war. It's a tough balance to make and I don't envy anyone whose job it is to weigh these decisions between an evil government or the fate of millions of lives.

@@miroslavhoudek7085 lmfao look at Americans trying to slander other countries. own your own genocides and global military f*ck ups ok? china hasn't been in war for decades and the prc isn't even a century old.

Yeah, it's a shitty place full of awful people.

A lot of that sounds like the same problems that are in Russia. Iraq is certainly in a better place than Afghanistan.

@@Seth9809 «A lot of that sounds like the same problems that are in Russia» This.

I did a year over there training the Afghan army, and that was the exact problem. The only thing that seemed to help was our very presence. It seemed as though there was no hope of training a military and standing up a legitimate government.

Can’t teach morality in a few weeks. Corruption, get all I can as fast as possible, then bail, is the American way. Why would a regime we created be any different?

I’m speechless. That is what I meant with egoistical children of the war, they don’t look or behave like adult men in my eyes. I was watching so many interviews with them but the impression remained.

It's sort of expected from rural illiterates who's spent most of their life fighting an insurgency. Their brain have been tuned to survival mode for so long that they no longer comprehend fairness, compassion, long term planning, etc.

And then you have Venezuela, "money" but no food

The country produces over 75 percent of the world's heroin maybe they should grow food instead of poppies

what do you mean colonial occupation? there was no wealth being extracted from the country - resources were being brought in by the Americans and westerners. On the contrary the American occupation was part of a state building mission intended to bring stability to the region. The Afghan people themselves displayed a lack of interest in being democratic or a partner to the west and their government fell apart in mere days after the Americans left. They were happy to take our money and were dishonest in their intentions with it. Popular support was clearly with the talibs... I believe aid should be provided because fundamentally 'haves' should always help 'aggression

@@arrowslinger2460 you are so stupid it's actually unbelievable. Did you actually listen to the facts mentioned in this video? The united states did not attack afghanistan and take over the country by force in order to help the people. that is a laughable joke.

Sounds like we have learned nothing

Its been my favorite show since I found it. Ive watched it so many time and showed so many other full grown adults and they all loved it. Wanting to see the babysitters club is why I kept a Netflix subscription

absolutely a highlight

Hmm. Thought Bezos was the richest man on earth? Did Musk pass him?

@@retroquest3579 Even if he didn't, that statement rings true.

@@retroquest3579 Yes, Musk passed him, but their net worth is very much tied up in how much their companies are currently valued at. Many think Tesla is overvalued.

not for me, i know exactly where we go wrong every time. Honestly its not hard to make good choices.

@@murlocmaster6192 right? It’s almost like it’s on purpose?

Everyone knew. We were keeping a corps on life support.

On the nose with this recommendation

Hmmm

Lololol. Just watched it today somehow. Funny timing

The general saying they had the wrong info is a joke and after watching that documentary

I barely laugh watching john oliver, i found trevor noah is way more witty

More often than not it feels like he’s helping the audience come up for air before the next dive into the shit. I love that it lands pretty much every time but fuck me, things look grim.

@Fen Seti ok? It’s so weird to me when people comment under other people’s comments just to say they don’t agree with them lmao.

@@TS-xn1mc you think it's weird when people express their opinion that's related to your opinion?

@Bongo Blast if you said “I love hamburgers” and a random stranger came up to you just to tell you they don’t like hamburgers and they prefer hot dogs you would think it’s weird too because You weren’t talking to them to begin with and you weren’t looking to engage in a conversation.

Why do they let the scanners?

@@MarceloRamos-uk8cd well we left those scanners for the ANA to continue using bc it had useful intelligence on not just the Taliban and AL Qaeda database but also those who worked alongside us...from terps...to informants...to the people that simply worked on base in clerical duties. But when the ANA fled the Taliban they left behind hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth American gear that we gave them...that's just one of the crucial things the left for the taliban...they encrypted but I imagine it wouldn't take the Taliban long to decrypt...possibly with the help of other nations hostile to the US.

Oh, my god. That is AWFUL. Wow….

It was infectious lol

you know it's fake

@@thewildcardperson Eh, sure, whatever. It's still part of the video.

Baby was reunited with relatives

Hear! Hear!

I think if we put trump and crows through similar obstacles and tests you would see how correct this statement really is…. Crows BLOW my mind with what they are capable of…. The latter. Not so much.

On the contrary, Trumps decisions also blow my mind. With his amazing, bigly stupidity.

How come Biden isn’t made fun of in the same way?, he’s literally brain dead

Incorrect. It would take crows millions of years to evolve to the level where their intelligence could match Trump's. This is sarcasm. I thought y'all would get it.

Nice pfp lol. But yes, the humanitarian crisis didn't go anywhere, it's just been made worse in certain regards without critical support propping it up.

I am with Biden on this one. Afghanistan had 20 years to grow up and stand on their own feet. They reap what they sow. Its not the US who failed Afghanistan, but the Afghan people.

why do the rest of us have to suffer for something some old white guy decided? my family needs help, should we take a back seat or should we focus on ourselves (The US) before we (yet again) go stomping into someone else's back yard and start acting like we're the good guys while simultaneously trying to fight the dick heads that will (inevitably) start shit cause OIL? we need to start working on us, the USA, before we start worrying about everyone else. everyone says 'we have so much! give to others!' blah blah. if that's true, start giving it to OUR people to make us stronger, more efficient and better working! the better WE do together, the better WE do for the world.

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​@@stephanbaehr6566 Same logic. Throwing money at the country (on top of the hundreds of millions we already are and billions we did in attempt to build their infrastructure) is not the solution.

This is how female and maternal mortality rates skyrocket and the country goes into fucking crisis because half their population is dying at catastrophic rates. Idiots.

Neat way to divert the subject. They'd starve before we begin to argue about that. You watched the entire video and learned nothing. "Education is meaningless when you're dying of hunger". Cutting aids would kill them faster than the taliban will.

The nurses and midwifes were installed before the taliban take over. Women aren’t allowed to go to school anymore meaning there won’t be anyone to replace them once they’re gone/retire. How was that not obvious to you? The point they’re making is that the Taliban will soon realize that their radical thinking isn’t a viable long term solution. Exceptions or complete reversals of restrictions on women will need to be made.

That’s religion for you. If we let the Christian Taliban over here take over that’s exactly the type of shit that’ll go down.

Literally what the GOP is trying to do to America

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Same, Al. Same.

Same, but its 3:30 and I'm eating graham crackers.

Bro it's 3:42 am. I'm here doing dabs and eating cereal. 🤣😂💙

I also have the Cheerios munchies, but you're all wrong, it's only 1:38 am

ADOS - Attention Deficit… Ooh, Shiny!

Because Russia pushing in Ukraine causes more global instability and food shortages via grain than Afghanistan which is just suffering under their own Taliban rule. Apples and grapes my dude

Is Afghanistan really a conflict anymore? I would say not.. People are willing to forget about Afghanistan because we spent 20 years and far too many lives in the hopes that their people would embrace a functioning democracy. They didn’t. It’s much easier to have sympathy for Ukraine, as it’s population has the will to fight.

@@ivancorey7389 hard to do when we also set up shit leader and then train the locals to overthrow it rinse and repeat for 30+ years

@@asksalottle220 At the end of the day, the Afghan fighters were 5 times the size of the Taliban and had the best US weaponry in the world, but they literally laid down their arms and didn't fire a single shot against Afghanistan in defense of their country. In fact, we learned afterward that they were always secretly loyal to the Taliban, so no matter how long we stayed, when we left they were just going to let the Taliban in.

Stay away from radical Islam

@clyde_1 I didn't.

Did they really?

I’m not surprised

@@annarae2396 They did. Disgusting.

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Go back and watch some of the older stuff too. Some are more time specific like corona virus or certain elections. Many are important information that is worth being talked about like lethal injection, prison systems, and such.

It can be absurd because you can't do shit about whatever nonsense he is using to justify Murican imperialism

Especially when it's only a bunch of men who are allowed to go.

The irony was not lost on me.

From the perspective that freedom is morally good, we can see the irony, but from the perspective that freedom is evil, there is no hypocrisy.

"freely" Haha are you serious?

YES PLEASE

I would be down for that! But, I would not want John to be at risk of sacrificing the admirable moral fiber he has displayed. Being a politician seems to be inherently corrupting. And even if he did make it I can see congress blocking him at every turn. Maybe if he could keep some good advisors around him and stay grounded. I would be more optimistic of his impact if congressional terms shortened to at least 10 yrs and same with Supreme Court judges.

Service for the Murican empire no longer guarantees citizenship.

Best wishes for your work! It is a total disgrace how the world left them on their own.

The fact Russia… Russia is one of the only two options is absolutely sickening. The US caused this problem and red pills are gunna throw a fit that they NEED somewhere to go and don’t want it to be here is just sooo gross. Thank you for what you are doing.

We don’t even take care of our veterans, taking care of the fodder from the wake of the quake is even more of a reach. If it doesn’t make a profit, no one with power to make changes actually cares. When I served over there, it was ridiculously obvious that corruption was rampant everywhere. Which made no one trust anyone.

@@d.h.4778 Hey Russia isn’t that bad, a little cold. but it’s not like, third world. They probably love it

Well, having not looked anything up yet, I'm not exactly sure what to expect from the star of a 90's sitcom who has since faded into obscurity. Probably just an IMDb page full of obscure appearances in B- and C-level entertainment. Maybe a drug problem. (That expectation is likely influenced by the fact that news tabloids wouldn't consider anything less 'news-worthy' and we'd just hear nothing. "No news is good news.") [Edit: Turns out ol' Dave's career has been surprisingly prolific, particularly in children's entertainment. Good on him. Also, apparently he dated Alanis Morissette and there was some drama there, which was the basis for the reference. Couldn't bring myself to care enough to actually read any of it in-depth.]

From my recollection of a great New Yorker piece on Afghanistan, something like: "The Taliban offer is simple: obey us and we won't kill you. Most rural people prefer that to local gangster warlords calling in US drone strikes against their enemies." Rural Afghanistan has never enjoyed good governance; it's a completely foreign concept to the long-suffering people.

Similar to how both north and south Vietnamese viewed their nation. And why propping up the South Vietnamese government was never going to work. The people themselves never saw themselves as an independent Vietnamese state. The cruelty that they suffered was simply icing on the nope cake.

Assimilating parts of Pashtun Afghanistan into Pakistan isn’t a solution when the problem you’ve highlighted is as if not more acute in the latter. The Balochis, Pashtuns and even parts of Sindh see themselves as different from the Punjabi-speaking majority in Pakistan which is why the country is wracked by multiple separatist movements. South and Southeast Asia and Africa are complex tapestries of ethnicities and fragmentation on ethno-linguistic lines to resemble Europe isn’t a solution, in my opinion. Unless there’s trust built through strong nation-building efforts and institutions that respect and abide by the rule of law, it’s always going to be a tricky situation to navigate. Whether Afghanistan or Nigeria, The Philippines or even a strong centralised democracy like India where there’s an increasing turn towards majoritarianism, if decision-makers and institutions are unable to resist the temptations that unchecked power brings, there’ll be an eventual slide into fragmentation which is unlikely to benefit anyone.

@@claymadness exactly, European nationalism is not going to show up the same in south and south eastern Asia. It’s not where nationalism took route and it’s not how ethnic groups are going to get along in the future. Gandhi said it best, “the only reason India can act as a nation is because Great Britain showed them how to do it.“ and even that form of nationalism is starting to fracture in favor of majority rule. Pakistan has a lot of ethnic and sectarian violence that is currently going on right now but most people are not aware of it.

@asahi toki But not "all" ethnicities. If that was true Northern Alliance would not have enjoyed the support it did. Certain groups suffered immensely worse under former taliban rule.

That took a few years.

They're the uncontested government of the country. Even if you 100% prevented them from just pocketing the money that would have gone to a power plant or an irrigation system, you can't stop them from taxing the sale of that power or those crops, that's how a government works. So what? Ask the Afghan people to fight another war? Who's going to fight when *half* the population of the country is malnourished children?

Who is you?

I agree but wasn't the International Rescue person one of the people who _can_ deliver it directly? Don't send money; just buy the stuff next door and send that! What will the Taliban do? Steal peoples' food and sell it? (I mean I wouldn't be surprised but surely that would spark an uprising if they did)

@@puppypi9668 That's actually what usually happens, unless the blue helmet of UN are involved. I suggest the video of "The problem with Foreign Aid" by Polymatter.

They're nearly as bad as the GOP now

No one actually thought that; Jesus Christ.

@@pugachevskobra5636 They certainly convinced some people who chose to follow them. That's evidenced at 7:26 when John's mentions how Taliban members were among the widespread criticism against banning young women from secondary ed.

@@pugachevskobra5636 there was a chance that they feared waning public support if they rolled back too many popular policies. Hindsight is 20/20, but anyone who says they knew exactly what the Taliban were going to do after taking the country is lying, I highly doubt even the Taliban had decided what to do at that point.

If we care, maybe release the $9 billion we stole from their central bank. 95 percent of afghan people are going hungry many families single mother led.

The belief that we should appropriate American culture into Afghanistan is nothing more than hubris.

Shouldn't be there in the first place...

What a pointless comment

@@Lilohilo97 Why?

US "help" is refused for a reason lol

Especially when he could have just sold the kids :/

Nobody should have to.

It’s unfortunate he had to sale kidney, but all I could think is he could have gotten way more money for that kidney. 🤦🏿‍♀️

Even more legend is the mom who sold her daughter to feed the other kids.

@@elisabethscott20 You're - sadly -abolutely correct.

@awnx ruyv The Romans were enslaved by Jesus because of water

Speak for yourself

War is a business. While you may think taxpayer's money has gone down the drain, a lot of it ended in certain people's pockets.

@Tin Watchman Offically: war against terror in reality: war for resources and advancement of american imperialism

Seems like that has been most wars since 1960

Tell that to thousands of Afghan girls who were able to read and write because West knocked over taliban, and now have to go back to 4th century roles and serve their husbands. I want to see you say to thousands of Afghan students stuck in India while their govt. collapsed that U.S. intervention was fruitless. Some of these people have never spent a single day under Talibani regime, and always had access to healthcare and education, courtesy of several international NGO's providing aid. Hey, but I guess the lives of these people are subservient to the interest of American taxpayers. What right does an 11 year old Afghan girl have against a dotard Donald Trump who wants to pull out of the country because " It's a bad deal". What is even more infuriating is the American left saying how western presence was bad for Afghan well-being. Sadly, it was the failure of Afghans to realise their securers don't live in reality anymore

And into the pocket$ of BlackRock. Raytheon...fill in the blank !

They weren't shocked. They feigned that shit to try absolving themselves of direct responsibility.

@@davidanspach1624 Hurray! Another one with common sense!!✊✊

And it is still not as unsurprising as the Irish response to a hard border coming with Brexit

That's what happens when you go to war on false pretenses.

Kicking the can down the road for twenty years.