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Anyone Watch "Afghanistan: The Wounded Land" on PBS? First Episode Was Very Good
| Disgusting bossy internal respiration dog poop | 08/04/25 |
| Nazca Redlines | 08/10/25 |
| Nazca Redlines | 08/10/25 |
| Nazca Redlines | 08/11/25 |
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Date: August 4th, 2025 4:26 PM Author: Disgusting bossy internal respiration dog poop I watched the first episode last night. It was very good. They did a reasonable job of balancing, e.g., cosmopolitan elites talking about how cool it was that Kabul had jazz clubs in the 60's with recognition that most of the country was rural, poor, and religious. One of the most interesting interview subjects is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar, an Islamist who was PM in the 90's.
This is Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5n6WYSCP_4 |
Date: August 10th, 2025 8:41 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Episode 2 was also very interesting. It's about the Soviets vs the Mujahideen. From this telling, it's clear the Soviets didn't know what they were getting into and never really had a chance. That's not a novel take, but the documentary is worth a watch for the Afghan perspective and footage on it.
https://youtu.be/MES0BW1U1ZU |
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Date: August 10th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Nazca Redlines This guy was a very compelling interview subject. He was a Mujahideen then an ambassador in the 90s and 2000s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud_Khalili (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5758210&forum_id=2Elisa#49173043) |
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Date: August 11th, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Episode 3, on the emergence of the Taliban was also great.
Episode 4, on Afghanistan after 9/11, was decidedly mediocre. None of it was new or insightful (to a viewer who watched the events unfold live (admittedly through the US-media lens)). They didn't really dive deep on anything novel, they didn't have the viewpoints of the Taliban or insurgents well represented, and it ended on a note of how women were the lynchpin of Afghanistan's future success and how they were never going to be repressed there again. That part didn't land today in the same way it might have when the episode came out, in 2020, before the US withdrawal. |