Matthew Hoh, former US State Department Official who resigned from post in Afghanistan

Interview with Matthew Hoh on PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer (Oct 29, 2009) on why he resigned from his US State Department Post in Afghanistan and why he disagrees re. the US/International military engagement in Afghanistan.

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News & Politics

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• Afghanistan War
• Krieg in Afghanistan
• PBS Newshour
• Matthew Hoh
• US Diplomat

[newtype64]

When the liberals tried to say this YEARS ago we were called "unAmerican" and "unpatriotic". The average America hated our views even though they were true. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW??? This is proof that the media and the government will lie as long as the masses are STUPID enough to belive it. I hope this teaches people that they need to really try to learn about the world outside of CNN and FOX.

[wisdomchambers]

US has created a big lie in the form of a phrase know as "terrorism". This phrase has no single definition or any periphery. It encompasses all enemies whether legitimate or oppressed. It even includes groups who fight for their freedom, fight against foreign occupation, and struggle against injustice, corruption and oppression. This term has totally tarnished the global ethics and human rights.

[piwacket33]

How, exactly, did they survey Afghanis?

[SuperAaaaa123456]

i am so sorry for Americans There media isnt free and there info are mostly wrong!

though Pakistan isnt that much developed but our media is much more free and aggressive against Govt's policies!

[SuperAaaaa123456]

Finally someone talking truth!!!

[kweju3]

@str8guerillaz I second your emotion. To finally see someone go against the tide and say our policy is insanity is refreshing. Now, if the rest of the country can make their opinions known... Until the "real" power behind our government says to, things won't change.

[jomat4678]

What can one man do? We are powerless to act against those who are truly in power unless the strength and voice of the people act with moral purpose and determination.

[ffuuuucccckk]

IS HE JESUS ? if not.... he's my Hero... I am totally agree with him.

[hsybcmpny]

I think that the mongols tried and just ended up trying to recruit them because they were so tenacious. But the way I see it is that if someone burnt my country to the ground, occupied it, got rid of my government and its way of doing things (which is what the afghans are used to right or wrong) and then had the fucking cheek to tell me Im free and Im welcome Id go to their country and burn that to the ground.

[joeyyoo85]

Frustrating! In the span of 2000 years, Afghanistan was conquered only 6 or 7 times. Yet, even when they were "conquered" there were strong resistance groups such as the modern day Taliban that made it impossible for the conquerors to have full control. Why does the US government think that they could do something that no other government, empire, or any army has done? It's frustrating to see our "leaders" making decisions in obliviousness to the fact: US CANNOT WIN IN AFGHANISTAN.

[brab79]

I wish this guy would run for president.

[USStateSponTerrorism]

Because of the stupidity of the dregs we have in the federal government, they have enriched China both economically and technologically so much so that now the Chinese are working quickly to substitute American capital and technology with theirs. Because our government has trusted the Israeli bastards with some of our best technology, they have sold some of it to the Chinese and they will eventually use it against us. Israel and their Israeli-American dregs r a cancer that should be eliminated.