The tag 'Taliban' is associated with 4 posts.

FTR #685 Interview [#4] with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Fun­da­men­tal changes are needed in U.S. Afghan pol­icy, includ­ing mod­er­a­tion of the use of fire­power, elim­i­na­tion of cor­rup­tion, alter­ing of pol­icy toward opium pro­duc­tion and rede­f­i­n­i­tion of Amer­i­can society.

FTR #683 Interview (#3) with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Afghan gov­ern­ment offi­cials over­see mas­sive Afghan heroin traf­fic; the BCCI at the cen­ter of decades of intel­li­gence com­mu­nity drug traf­fick­ing in that area; U.S. may col­lapse like ancient Rome.

FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.

FTR #678 Interview (#1) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

U.S. lured the Sovi­ets into Afghanistan; George H.W. Bush ana­lysts pro­vide ide­o­log­i­cal base for the actions; Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski imple­ments the plan; Rea­gan cold war­riors reject Soviet with­drawal plan.