How We Missed the Story on Afghanistan

In How We Missed The Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, award-winning journalist Roy Gutman weaves a narrative that exposes how and why the U.S. government, the United Nations, and the Western media "missed the story" in the leadup to 9/11.

Focusing primarily on events in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, Gutman contends that foreign policy in the region was non-existent. He argues that instead of a comprehensive foreign policy, the U.S. government chose to conduct a counter-terror policy that inadvertently fueled the very fire it was trying to fight. Gutman is also critical of the media's role during this period -- questioning the lack of coverage of Afghanistan prior to 9/11.

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News & Politics

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• Afghanistan
• US
• Taliban
• Al
• Qaeda
• Pakistan
• Mujahadeen
• Russia
• USSR
• Osama
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• Laden

[Ghurshah]

The Clinton presidency actually aided the Taliban - $40 million in aid and even did it's utter best to try to get Massoud to surrender to the despotic Taliban... Read up on the acitivites of head of the South Asia desk at the State Department during Clinton's time - a lady was in charge whom was essentially a lobbiest of the Pakistan's colonial goals in Afghanistan.

[ElChuco77]

Roy Gutman is a lying zionist (watch THE OTHER ISRAEL on google) He framed the balkan war to favor the Banking Cartels. (watch MONEY MASTERS) He will rot in hell.