What Actually Went Wrong In Afghanistan

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

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

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

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 👍

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

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

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

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.

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

Quick Side note: People of Afghanistan are called Afghans. Afghani is the currency.

"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."

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...

I Always liked infographics' Backend characters going blah blah blah

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

Humor integrated into animated film, showing history, man that's genius, I love it!

Fantastic video. Well done.

if only u guys made this video one week earlier, cause I was doing some school work about Afghanistan crisis and this would have been very useful.

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.

Not going to lie the taliban seems smarter than what media portrayed them to be

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