8bitagent » 27 Jan 2015 18:31 wrote:Nordic » Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:45 am wrote:Wow. What a disappointment. This is "The Official Story" as done by Curtis.
Unbelievable. It's "Osama bin Laden did 9/11". The West had a "dream" of Democracy in Afghanistan. The banks decided to loan money to anyone and everyone to "help the economy as a whole".
What a FUCKING CROCK OF SHIT.
How did they get to Curtis?
I was disappointed there wasn't more footage of college women and freedom in 1960's and 1970s Afghanistan. Hate to say it but life looked pretty good under Soviet Russia before the Saudi CIA shenanigans.
well, things looked ok back before then too, with the King and the Americans (who built the water infrastructure needed to turn Helmand into Poppy Central) too.
I don't really think there's a problem, at all, with his telling of the Official Story, anything else would be VERY short on documentary proof, and anyway, is not something any audience is prepared to deal with, his take on the Official Story is quite accurate and a fair Public telling of the tale. What he says regarding national motivations is what MOST people involved believed, and that is what he set out to tell. it seems to me. That we could not do what the british, earlier americans, the soviets, couldn't do is hardly a surprise, and as far as history goes, I find this a satisfactory end to the sorry tale, let our part in it be done. I mean, come on, we've been in Afghanistan basically half a generation now FFS.
The real question is why the bush admin could get away with selling this asinine foolish activity to such a large portion of the US population, the reasons are: republican identity politics and general ignorance.