Afghanistan: The Price Of Revenge

More Than A Decade Ago The US Launched A War Against Afghanistan, But Was It A Justified Battle?

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After years of violence and bloodshed, the lives of more than 3,000 soldiers have been lost, and the US leaves behind a country on the brink of civil war.

They did not participate in 9/11. Not a single Afghan, not a single Taliban, was in that terrorist act. Arturo Munoz, a former CIA officer

The official rhetoric has not stood up to the stark reality on the ground: Osama bin Laden was found and killed elsewhere - in neighbouring Pakistan; al-Qaeda and the Taliban may have been an ideological combination conveniently cooked up by the hawks in Washington; and the fate of Afghan women was just used as an excuse to sell the war to a Western public.

In this film, all parties to the conflict - members of the US secret service, commanders of the US armed forces, Taliban officials, Afghan warlords and tribal leaders, UN negotiators, Pakistani leaders and secret service, and NGO officials - give their view, unravelling the tangled web of a war that had no other motive than America’s thirst for revenge.

Western democracies promised Afghanistan a better future. But they will leave the country in a state of widespread corruption and disillusion, with thousands of lives lost, and the Taliban more powerful than ever.

Afghanistan, which was once the ideal target, has today become a volcano.