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America has been on the wrong side of history for my entire life. I don’t know if it’s even possible to right this sinking ship.

Hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan. Can we spend it on healthcare or free college?

"He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch" never seems to go out of style.

I’d rather investigate thousands of atrocities committed by American soldiers and commanders in Bagram prison and all over the country. Lets do not forget Guantanamo bay.

Now they are doing it in Israel predominantly started by British mandate backed by the USA

This is why politicians are fighting against teaching actual American history. Could you imagine how young people would work to correct this madness!😮

I'm so grateful for independent journalism. News like this is never covered in mainstream media

It took 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban

American dream started with Genocide (of natives) and this dream end with Genocide (in pelistine.

US supported Raziq. That doesn’t amaze me when they’re supporting a person like Netanyahu. Once wrong and always wrong.

No wonder why Afghani people didn’t trust the USA! This is the type of person we allied ourselves with and propped up?! Disgraceful. The people of Afghanistan suffered a million times more than we ever thought. Thank you for this journalism

Nobel prize should be taken back from Obama.

And this was the " good war" according to Obama.

US army most likely did worse than Raziq. After all, Raziq was a student of the US training schools.

There is no end to sickening atrocities - all in the name of power and greed.

Its like american cops. None of it is accidental.

As Americans we have a golden opportunity collectively as citizens to acknowledge the actions some in our government have taken and loudly denounce them patriotically. Take our country back and redefine what a democracy is and highlight the risks of corruption taking root. We have an enormous amount of instances where power is abused and led to the unnatural death of countless American citizens and citizens of other countries. We find ourselves in the current moment witnessing a genocide take place perpetrated under the cover of religious idolatry but in reality it's just a man outrunning democratic law and his enablers who enjoy their proximity to power so they support him for their own self interested means. An individual wakes up in part by recognizing the conflicting views they hold within themselves and it's the exact same for a country to do the same collectively. It's a mind game where one has come to recognize the nature of the mind and can deal with it accordingly.

This guy doesn't get it. The U.S. IS the monster.

I served in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010 and my company was down in Spin Boldak and worked with Raziq. I have to tell you we knew this guy was bad news. We knew that in the past he had committed massacres against members of a rival tribe. We knew he had his fingers all over the opium trade. But we worked with him, visited his compoind in an old fort overlooking the city and he even had Blackwater there with him. But we worked with him anyways. And if i remember correctly the guy was illiterate. This has never sit well with me. After i left the Army i learned he was promoted and given control of the whole of Kandahar privince. This deeply distrubed me. I knew the war was going to end in some kind of collapse of the Afghan government. I thought that if that happened the "Warlord of Spin Boldak" would essentially become one of the most powerful warlords in a fractured country. I was greatly relieved when i learned of his assassination. Not just relieved but glad this bastard was dead. I have incredibly mixed feelings about how the war ended but i am certain about two feelings; im glad the war is over and im glad Raziq had no part in how that war ended. I know that a KZfaq comment section might not be the most appropriate place to air all this dirty laundry. But we need viewers and anyone else who wants to know what that war was like to know about what even guys like me knew and had to go through. And especially peolple who dont want to know need to know.

Please tell me WHY I should respect America? What's to respect?

he was the right hand of US and worse than a monster

Nothing surprising here after all isn't that what Americans are known for?

As an Afghan I can definitely confirm all this has happened.

I am Afghan but I nerver saw my country but my mother (she is from a really beautiful village near Kabul ) told me that she never liked Americans because they were always Bad News to the poor people of her village and in the city . She never saw Americans as allies

Great research! People of Kandahar have suffered so much from this puppet monster of US monster

The circumstances of Raziq’s assassination were quite odd. Raziq was assassinated while he was accompanied by General Miller. The assassins had the opportunity to take out General Miller, yet chose to focus on Raziq. I often wondered whether a deal had been made between the US and TBN to give up Raziq. I guess we’ll never know the truth.

20 years of war was a scam on American Taxpayers. Spent 2 trillion losing thousands from both sides and fighting The CIA trained Taliban. And at end Puting Taliban to power 😂😂😂

@3:48 Raziq was assassinated while standing next to American generals ,how is that Americans were nor harmed?😅😅😅😅

This Typical American Behavior will never end

They create such monsters then they sit back and tell you, "see what they're doing to themselves; this is why we need to help these people behave like people"; which is all very well, but what then should be said of the masterminds? Bringing the worst out in people, leveraging on ancient fissure lines is relatively easy - and shame on those who allow themselves to be so used - but the greater blame must be on those who routinely incite such ruthlessness, whose policies bring nothing but misery everywhere and on everyone.

Same in Guatemala and in many other places, like El Salvador etc etc. That might be the true face of USA.

🤦‍♀️its a different kind of embarrassment when its your government

mass graves were found in his residental compound. he had kept prisoners in an underground dungeon

Shame on US and Raziq

A serial killer undercover

Monsters can only train other monsters!

why are we just now hearing this?!!

Benjamin Meikolowsky aka Netanyahu whos family is from Poland

crazy how only one man is being talked about when almost the entire ANA did this

just to say this is a great channel. democracy now dares to cover issues that are not covered anywhere else. war is ugly, it takes at least two sides to engage. however, media only demonizes the other side. thanks for keeping it real. and prayers for peace

Abdu Razaq is one name.There millions of Abdu Razaq in the world and in Afghanistan

While China is building roads and bridges, we continue to fund wars and conflicts. Who do you think will win in the long run?

"بالنسبة لما يفعله بيبي في رفح، لا يقترب ذلك أبدًا من سوء ما فعله تلك القتلة. لقد اتبع أوامر من وحوش حقيقية. ولكن في رفح، هناك وحوش حقيقية تعمل وتدعمها الولايات المتحدة."

Why should we cooperate with USA? Why should we trade with USA?

Operations: condor, gladio, northwoods. Just the tip of the iceberg

No American ally in Afghanistan, Iraq or any other region that America is occupying, should call themselves “patriots” to their countries. U r helping a foreign nation to occupy ur country, where patriotism in that? They should be called traitors to their nations. And I am one of those traitors 😭😭😭

Afghanistan needs to be safe

Michael Corleone, veteran of World War II, speaking to a WASP senator, says something very important: "You and I are part of the same hypocrisy." The brutality and coercion those men engaged in had to be hidden and lied about. There was at one point an idea that "elections" would allow people to move past brutality faster than the one party rule in China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. And when Pinochet and Ortega were both voted out of office in the late 1980s, this idea had something to recommend it. But in thevtwenty-first century, the rise on Modi, Duterte, and Bolsonaro suggests something different, that the electorate does not punish brutality, that it rewards efficient brutality as much as Mars himself does. And the triumph of the Taliban, like Fidel Castro in the Godfather part II, is a sign that transparent brutality and hypocritical brutality should be evaluated without the hypothetical of a world without brutality imagined by hippies.

Thank you Amy

Thanks Amy

Don't fool yourself by expecting humanity and ethics from a country, who built on genocide of 130 million indigenous Mississippian, Pueblo, Aztec , Inca peoples Between the late 15th and late 17th centuries , the only country in the world to have unleashed the power of an atomic bomb on a civilian population and they did it twice. More than 906,000 people, including 387,000 civilians, died directly from post-9/11 wars. Another 38 million people have been displaced or made refugees.Around 1,500,000 Iraqis, primarily children, died as a direct consequence of the imposed sanctions, according to UNICEF estimates. Around 2 million civilians were killed in the territories of North and South Vietnam, in the Vietnam war. and the list is Endless. if schools taught their students about every heinous atrocity the US and West has committed abroad, the history books would be too heavy for anyone to carry. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!” ― Tennessee Williams

Those innocent who were tortured and murdered under these thugs took him down.

I'm reminded of the French colonel's question to the press in Gillo Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle of Algiers: Should France stay in Algeria? If your answer is still yes, then you must accept all the consequences.

Where have we Not been involved either to topple or change governments or whatever suits us. Chile-El Salvador- Africa- Iran- Iraq- Mexico- Europe - Asia - Peru - Mexico - Afganistan- Cuba - Nicaragua - Venezuela

Where have we heard these stories about America and its Dictators

I thought America's monster was 'israel'

The US is the monster.

"Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it. My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant." ~Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament

"Afghanistan was a great country before the United States destroyed it - it costs the US 4 billion a year to keep it's occupation... just think what 4 billion could do for the U.S. economy." ~Keith Bound

I think God, and I'm happy that Afghanistan returned to the people that it belongs to.

Great reporting

The documentary Taxi To The Dark Side exposes stuff like this

“You can’t defeat men who looks though the barrel and they see paradise”

Thank you Democracy Now and Matthieu for the information you provided regarding the brutality committed by Abul Raziq agains his own people.

Afghan Massacre: the Convoy of Death”-produced and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran.

It has always been the same, only thing is that truth comes out few years after the incident.

I have witnessed this animals cruelty… he was a CIA dog that profited from the war and his drug smuggling business. Many of his associates and partners live in California .. the US let these dogs ruin the US efforts and are now protecting them inside the US

From Vietnam, through many wars, to this one, what has happened after closing one "shameful chapter", has benn the opening of a different shameful chapter. Moralless and deceitful, the Military Industrial Complex has profited based on these shameful acts. President Eisenhower, the ultimate five-star general, warned us, but we never listened.

Bombs & Drones to win Hearts & Minds... Sounds counter-Evolutionary! "I think that it's time to have a frank reckoning with our history", says Matthieu Aikins. I trend to agree.

What happened to Afganastan's warlords, I can't believe they disappeared.

I would comment to a few comments here but the free thought/free speech police keep deleting my comments!!!

Internet companies do subtle censorship by making typing difficult 😂😂😂😂😂😂

M0nsters creating a monster. 2:44

And finally he was killed by the CIA because he was defeating Taleban badly and American didn’t want this. The plan was to bring Taleban back to power.

Wasn't General Raseq anti Taliban? According to his words, he was.

And yet somehow you still think Washington is telling the truth about Ukraine? That’s just dumb on purpose.

Razaq was a naan maker and tea maker in Quetta Pakistan 🇵🇰, the fact that an bufoon such as Razaq could climb so high in Afghan society shows how far Afghanistan has gone into the abyss.

AIKINS is an amazing reporter, very intelligent and experienced

As an Afghan, I would like to thank Mr Matthieu Aikins for his honesty and responsibility to his work and let the world know what really happened in Afghanistan during the presence of American ! For many Afghans, Mr Raziq is a hero, but what I heard about him today is that I am really in great shock!

I hate that said of us it’s not us it’s bad actors and parties that want to see us American fail

Love Amy Goodman. She always tries to pronouce the foreign names of people and places as accurately as she can, besides producing one of the best independent news.

That is a really good point. Armies commit brutality against civilians because they believe it often works. Taliban brutality was more effective than Western brutality because the Taliban had a better strategy and story. And because Western brutality was denied even though the people affected knew what was happening, especially since it was happening to them. There is a similar dynamic happening in Gaza.

And who ordered all this abuse?

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me

You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep.

We have definitely lost moral ability to judge anyone....

US is in maral freefall. This is another example.

DAMAGED MALES BEHAVING BADLY

Abdul Raziq was in his teen age when Taliban captured Kandahar in early 90s during their first regimen. Taliban Killed an Uncle ( Mansoor) of Abdul Razik and many other family memebers and people of his tribe. Abdul Raziq left Kandahar and came to the border city ( Chaman) of Pakistan. When the US removed Taliban in 2001, he went back to home country and joined security Forces. In a tribal country like Afghanistan, his tribe was not supportive of Taliban who targeted his tribe. When he gained power , he did same with them. There is a lot of background which needs to be mentioned.

America has never ever once been on right 🔛 side of anything 🙄

And here they are charging Julian Assange for crimes that they themselves committed?!?! Julian should be released from the charges once and for all!!

Might isn't right. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Why don't people ever learn from history. ?!?!

The evidence was overwhelming !!!!!!!

Rules are for other people, right? Oh, right and left. That’s more than wrong. It’s sickening. It’s 2016 in our own front yard. - No error; front, not back. This it all starts, from within. Becomes visible. Builds in frequency. Less efforts to correct.

Not exactly the way the U.S. can win the hearts and minds of the people we're supposedly there to liberate.

Nothing to say about what the Boko Haram has done in Nigeria ? Hundreds more kidnapped recently ...and you are silent ?

You have all the right to discuss the So called paradox masking the American presence in Afganistan but you have no right what so ever to judge Taliban. Taliban is an Afghani movement unified the country post a period of bloody unrest after the withdrawal of the Russians. The question is why the US is in Afghanistan. Americans didn't come to Afghanistan for the sake of the Afghans or for the sake of women. Nobody buys in these bullshit claims. Throughout 20 years of Americans occupation, not a single school was built not a single factory. Amerwere there to loot the country. After Americans defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan, and whilst the Afghans were in struggle against a famine, the US confiscated 7 billion dollars that belonged to Afghans. Americans can no longer set and enforce their definitions of democracy or their flawed values that prove wrong and hypocritical day by day

Gulbudeen gave General Scott miller PTSD😂

a good reminder that might doesn’t always equal right.