What Actually Went Wrong In Afghanistan

Today we're going to look at how the Soviet Union and the United States directly affected the way Afghanistan would be shaped for decades to come. Some of these decisions would come back to haunt the USA, find out why in our new video.

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[josephzacharias]

Hearing the politicians say "blah blahblah blah blah" was the most accurate thing about this video.

[agent_w.]

“What Went Wrong In Afghanistan”
Everything.
I think it’d be easier to answer “What Went Right?”

[rsahil]

As an Afghan born in America this makes more sense as everyone in my family has different stories

[aidanlecter]

Thank you for these videos I struggle understanding what I read so seeing it helps me learn and this is something I never had a good understanding of until now 👍

[justinsales]

I was actually in the service and never understood the war till this video 🤣

[mspotato]

The fact that the US continued to throw money at all possible groups of interest even though it almost always failed, is the most baffling part to me

[urhunn]

Listening to 20 minutes of American opinion on what went wrong in Afghanistan, without hearing one single word about tribes and clans, without the word "Pasthun" ever mentioned, just speaks for itself...

[bigatomicsloth]

I was an E4 interpreter (taken off of Signal Collection and put to work doing face to face translation with almost zero training in that aspect) in Iraq in 03 and can't believe we couldn't figure some of these things out. I NEVER spoke with them with my sunglasses on, it should be rude in any culture. Yeah, I could've been killed, but I didn't take my long gun and didn't want a bunch of shooters standing behind me looking tough. Altogether I did pretty well working with the Iraqis. Too bad the Marine Corps didn't want to fork over any money for me to stay in and pass that knowledge along. The US military is like a cosmic horror, incomprehensible and vast and very powerful but kind of dumb and blind to the small things.

[voracities]

Afghanistan is never gonna catch a break from internal and external conflicts

[CapoHabiby]

Quick Side note: People of Afghanistan are called Afghans.

Afghani is the currency.

[willbrink]

Depressing...We, the US, learned virtually nothing from Vietnam really.

[manofthesands]

I went there 5 times. Each for many months. A lot went wrong. There's things behind the scenes average folk would not believe.

[raihanhussain]

I Always liked infographics' Backend characters going blah blah blah

[Straightforwardpk]

Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires and Pakistan is providing the funeral services ⚰️

[teddy]

The contracting company I worked for was always as respectful to the locals as they could be, thankfully.

[chrisparker]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

[Lanwarder]

One of the problem is how they called it a "war on terror". How do you "defeat terror"? You don't go into a war without clear objective and an exit strategy.

[PatrickWilliamsI]

The ISI did dot not need to invite Pashtuns into Pakistan. The Pashtuns in Afghanistan has never recognized that arbitrary British border that divide the Pashtuns.

[Planklee]

I honestly want to hear your opinion of all this, being a soldier and all, like personally because I hear that some gave their bodies to this and just to pull out

[ArgonDavid]

I can learn from the information and story one "Reap what you sow" and second "Mind your own business" always. History keeps repeating itself.