Conversations with History: Steve Coll

[jdavis8]

If your like me and searched Ghost Wars on Youtube he starts talking about it at 20:30ish

[ferdaws47]

Steve Coll, Its a great book and Massoud is great.

[BedilFilms]

i have got the opportunity to read his translated book & tried alot to find out his english book, but could not find it yet. Great Book, could not stop reading it... it will pull you to read it...

[drunkenstooge]

I love the intro music! It obviously hasn't been updated for 30 years.

[tubub]

@drunkenstooge

lol it makes it sound sooo boring

[minahilll]

Mossad was not supported by ISI not beacuse he was not Islamist but because of Pakistan's own Pusthun popilation and pusthun seperarist movent from which all taliban have come so it was also question of supporting a ehtic groupo in worn torn afghanistan it meant a lot.

Actually Pakistan lost control of hekmatyer very quickly hekmatyer went to live in iran who with support of India wanted him to run proxy war agaisnt pusthun lead other islamist fighters

[phdecora]

his name is Massoud.

Mossad is the israel spy organization

[minahilll]

The Pakistani were left to cobble a govt by mujhadeen only as even US policy in 1979 with US nat secuirty advisorBrenzwiki was for support of islamist and not nationalist afghans.

the only other so caslled moderate Mossad was the realy good but followed same bloody tactics of other commanders secondly he was supported by afghan minority tajiks and hazars not to mention Pakistan arch enemy India who beforew soviet invasion was using afghanistan to destablize pakistani western borders

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[minahilll]

The book is good but due to constraint of time interview does not touches  pf many issues

like what Afghanistan and Pakistan suufered due to soviet invasion of afghanistan drug running and cun culture with 5 mn heroin addicts in pakistan and 4 mn afghan refugees in Pakistan.

2,Pakistan isi supported only those fighters which were most motivated, efficient and not booged down by domestic issues, fanatical fundamntalist .

If us was not ready to invest and risk how would world expectpak

[iamaneysayer]

I am reading his book at the moment. Amazing... I typically can't get though the first few chapters of political/historical books, bur his writing just pulls you in. One of my favorite, random, finds of 2008.

[bigboyretard]

HIS TEETH FUCKING SUCK!!!

[CVertex]

i enjoy listening to steve coll. I think he's one of my favourite journalists.

I particularly like it when he speaks abstractly about journalism and it's role in society.

[21Mar08myChannel]

great interview

[21Mar08myChannel]

SC makes a good point about EVERYONE thinking Iraq had WMD's, but that, even, is a distraction. Selling of the war was based upon the threat and the credibility of this threat. While the press did fail, as SC says re:the likely post-war opposition, they also failed to dismiss the credibility of the threat and the credibility of a threat CAUSED by a power vaccum in the Mideast. The press also failed to amplify the neocons motivations for attacking Iraq, specifically.