Will Griffin and Matthew Hoh: Fighting the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan, Parts 1-3

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With Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Peace Report
March 8, 2019

“For all these costs, particularly the bloody expenditure of lives, the war remains the same as it was in 2009: neither side can win and neither side will surrender. US proclamations of military success and “hard won gains” are specious and are just one of the ever present lies of war.” — Matthew Hoh

The Peace Report on Mar 5, 2019

Matthew Hoh is a member of the advisory boards of Expose Facts, Veterans For Peace and World Beyond War. In 2009 he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by the Obama Administration. He previously had been in Iraq with a State Department team and with the U.S. Marines. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy.

Matt’s article: Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H2NcaNvLtQ

Myths of the Afghanistan War w/ Matthew Hoh 2/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzYg6y6fjzM

U.S. Empowered Warlords in Afghanistan w/ Matthew Hoh 3/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlK9avxjGg

Ep. 5115 – Matthew Hoh on the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan – 11/7/2019

Scott Horton on Dec 1, 2019

Matthew Hoh discusses the extraordinary difficulties in resolving the complex political and ethnic tensions in Afghanistan, something that the U.S. military has been trying to do for going on 20 years. Hoh says that during his time there he saw lots of practices by the Kabul government that clearly weren’t any better than tribal or Taliban rule, like bribery, extrajudicial killings, and women treated as second-class citizens. It’s no wonder that the Afghan people, particularly Pashtuns, are less than thrilled with the American-backed central government. Hoh also shares some of the difficulties in attracting a coalition of principled antiwar activists across left and right in America.

Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Hoh is a member of the Board of Directors for Council for a Livable World and is an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts. He writes on issues of war, peace and post-traumatic stress disorder recovery at https://matthewhoh.substack.com/.

From the archives:

Marjorie Cohn: The Aftermath of 9-11 Lives On + Ray McGovern and Jason Leopold: 9/11 Not an “Intelligence Failure” + Ralph Nader on 9/11: The Empire’s Overkill + Abby Martin: 9/11 and the Belligerent Empire

William Blum: Be Nice To America. Or We’ll Bring Democracy To Your Country!

17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong by David Swanson

Chris Hedges: A Socialist Soldier’s Tale of Resisting the American Empire

Capitalism Is Always At War by William T. Hathaway

The War of US and NATO Imperialism in Afghanistan by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.

Matthew Hoh: Trump’s New Afghanistan Strategy: Windfall for the Military-Industrial Complex​

Chris Hedges and Matthew Hoh: Afghanistan War Keeps Going Because the Money Keeps Flowing In

Matthew Hoh: Taliban is not a threat to the US, it is a threat to the Karzai Government