The Weakness of US Empire & Defeat in Afghanistan: New Book by Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky
The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it’s on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power,” that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it’s fragile.
Brian is joined by Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and author of a new book with Noam Chomsky called “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.”
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Mean-while in Afghanistan: When America pulled out of Afghanistan it froze Afghanistan’s government funds held in foreign banks so the Taliban could not get it. Corrupt American politicians plan to use these funds to compensate American corporations for what happened in September 11. So now Afghanistan has no overseas funds to buy food for its starving populations. Nothing else as important as this is a worthy issue in Afghanistan news but the root cause is the west not respecting Afghan cultural beliefs like it was a crusade. The Innocent Afghanistan public are paying the price of September 11 with their lives. Rather than America, NATO and UN handing over in a planned way to the Taliban with assistance to the Taliban with issues like how to run a modern country, they just abandoned the Taliban after 20 years of colonialist control, exploitation and hegemony. Shame on you America!
Its piracy and theft,going on for 100s of years. Afghanistan learned its most expensive lesson to not let Saudi pirates enter their territory again.
Whoever was responsible for the "911 attacks": Their greatest crime is providing a plausible excuse for what ensued.
Bush was the responsible, it was an inside job plan and the citizens were the collateral damage..
Yup from dancers to neocons to benefactors of region specific unjust wars and those in position to exploit the patriot act… JFK pretty much warned us
What a brilliant combination. Vijay p and chomsky. Two great minds
Always a pleasure to hear Vijay's thoughts.
fantastic. Vijay is a tornado of fearsome strength!!
Wow! I'm blown away by Vijay Prashad's intelligence, wisdom, and knowledge of history. Every American needs to watch this video, even if they don't agree with his viewpoints.
also, he seems to be an impressive humanist.. simply a good person beyond his vast intelligence
Thank you Brian Becker for this great dialogue with Vijay Prashad on his coauthored book “The Withdrawal “
Brilliant analysis! Thank you!
vijay never fails to amaze with a wealth of knowledge. brian aswell :) thx for the conversation!
i'm already a top fan Vijay Prashad
Thank you guys for educating us all around the world 🌍🌎 may Allah guide you and bless us all with his mercy.(i'm Abubakr Osman from West Africa Accra Ghana)
Great interview, you did such a good job.
Thank you so much, its always a pleasure listen to Vijay🙏🙏💙
thanks for this most excellent discussion! great work!
We don't even need a State Department anymore because we don't practice any Diplomacy!!!
Proj Jeffrey Sachs concluded US doesn't do diplomacy, it does weaponry!
Thank you to both of you. Noam and you Vijay are human beings!!! You move my heart with the interest( LOVE) you put about real people . THE UNIVERSE, GOD , any name you give to THE DIVINE ENERGY that keep us in this planet alive, bless you now and always.
I love how Vijay elaborates the ideas, with no euphemism straight to the point!
So much truth, so much information here. I love it.
Great talk. I don't normally buy books based off of interviews etc. But I'm going to hunt down a copy.
Thank you!
Just ordered the book... Looking forward to reading it from cover to cover. Thank you!
_Now, one of the amazing things about a person like Noam Chomsky, he happens to know everything_ Yes! When I first discovered him, that's exactly how I felt listening to everything there was to listen to with him and being enlightened by this brilliant man.
What Prishad said about Noam’s ability to read between the lines of all the minutiae emitted daily from the US bureaucracy is so true!
Just brought it. Ta!
On 9/11 in 1973 Pinochet together with the active help of the US(CIA) waged a coup on the democratically elected president Allende in Chile, and toppled his government in a coup that was so brutal and bloody, they still talk about the monstrosity of its killing around 30000 people most of whom were brought to the stadium, tortured and killed, they even had helicopters taking the bodies and throwing them into the sea. Imagine the loss of many intellectuals and patriotic martyrs who could have advanced Chile in their capacity as Artists, Teachers, Poets, and all others who wanted Chile to be free of the cancer of Capitalism. While the US commemorate its victims of 9/11 it should repent, and announce its dirty role in that coup and many others in the world, and stop lecturing us about Human Rights which it uses as a lip service to further its coercion and control.
Nom chomsky and vijay prashad great peoples
The interview of Former head of Kabul Airport reveling how CIA, MI6, UAE helped Osama Bin laden with 180 family members armed travel with an unknown tourisim company charterd a fly from sudan to Sharjah Airport in UAE, waiting 18 hour in the airport, given hime an air satellite Navigation sending the airplane to Kabul. Bin Laden asking pilots to let hime know when he inter Afghan airspace, the pilots ignored to let hime know, soon after Bin laden asking the pilots why they didn't let hime know when they inter Afghan airspace. Pilots reply we forgot. 20 Km to Kabul Airport Bin laden asking for redirection to Jalalabad Airport in the East of Afghanistan. Where he's other alqaeda brother were waiting, in two weeks more than 4000 toyota pickup truck arriving from Abuzabi to the west of Afghanistan. In four weeks Bin laden had more than 6000 fighters and taken over the Nangarhar province. The rest is American Piracy for the price 100 million life around the world. Pirate and pirate culture is disgusting
Really appreciate this interview.
Uh oh, I'm going book shopping again. This is fantastic, and timely.
Yet another brilliant expose by level-headed top class interviewer and interviewee! With your permission, may I remind all and sundry that there can never be any peace anywhere without justice. Such being the case, aren't all altruistic if disinterested independent reporters and whistle-blowers not only peace mongers but essentially justice mongers too?
Wow. Another deeply insightful interview.
Great conversation
totally agree, excellent discussion.
Love ur show - thank u 🙏🏽
enlightening
Will the world be able to discover all America's crimes against humanity?????.
What can America claim to be exceptional at? Let’s take a closer look and ask a few simple and obvious questions. Can it claimed to be exceptional at reducing: homelessness Infant mortality drug addiction drug deaths gun violence wars racism healthcare cost educational cost income inequality police violence infrastructure decay societal conflict monopolies road rage food insecurity poverty obesity arrogance and on and on and on…? America had nearly 250 years to achieve this exceptionalism, shouldn’t that be enough time? Can it claim to be exceptional at all the things that makes life worth living, that makes life exceptional such as: affordable healthcare affordable education affordable housing personal safety a promising future a sense of connection to society common prosperity camaraderie a sense of responsibility towards the unfortunate and on and on and on…? Again, America had nearly 250 years to achieve this exceptionalism, shouldn’t that be enough time? Can it claim to be exceptional at all the things that makes a person, a society, a culture, a civilization humane? One more time, America had nearly 250 years to achieve this exceptionalism, shouldn’t that be enough time? If It can’t, then what’s the point?
Brilliant !
I'm currently reading his book on the writings/speeches of Ho Chi Minh. Really interesting so far!
An Empire like the US that started asking its soldiers to apply for food vouchers because they are not paid enough even though they defend the Empire when the need arise or treat all those traumatized and invalids who came back from all its aggressive wars with neglect, will disintegrate sooner or later.
Thats how they like it...A fool and a master.
It's so funny to me that this show has about 90% less bloopers than Democracy Now
Hi Brian, Greetings from Nepal. Insightful analysis.
22million Russian soldiers died in WWII, NO ONE SAYS THIS EITHER!
*Soviet not just Russian. The whole USSR fought against the Nazis
The USSR won WWII and those aligned with communism/international revolutionary movement were the only ones fundamentally opposed to what all the fascists around the world believed. Proof can be found in the business dealings of American corporations, such as Coca Cola and Ford, continuing and expanding production in and with Nazi Germany and occupied territories. Since Operation Paperclip has been analyzed in detail, the amount of evidence against the US/west and their rewritten history is unsurprisingly a complete load of bs, mostly completely fabricated. Reigning absolute horror and hell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima after Japan had all but unconditionally surrendered, purely to threaten Stalin and the USSR who had just won the war for the world. Not to mention the absorption of high up Nazi officers and scientists into top positions of power in the government, NASA and NATO. A truly despicable history and track record.
For all the good the Noam Chomsky's of the world have done ... QED.
Its a great chanel thank you, you expose truth, very few chanel without influence of usa western monaply,
Noam may not be with us much longer good to have Vijay
What a lethal combination of two greatest minds. Would you interview Arundathi Roy?
Wtf does Arundhati Roy knows? Interview Vandana Shiva instead.
Shameful withdrawal! Embarrassing!
It's great to hear Vijay Prashad talk. But the title of the video is very misleading.
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The Downfall of the US will start when the Dollar is shown its real value in transactions world wide, when that crumbles all the Arrogance, and Hubris will go with it, and licking the wound will be starting, but the world would not be that forgiving or that forgetting as my neighbor used to remind me.
And the USA's collapse will happen from within, like how all other empires have collapsed throughout our history.
We should have foreseen this coming to Russia after Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Libya from years ago when they persecuted their own American Citizens with such a brutal force, that they will not hesitate to do it to other people which they think they are superior to!!!!!!!!!!.
Drinking water hell look at Jackson,Miss
Iraq is next on the things to do for America which is the withdrawal with a sad face because it is loosing on that oil that has been stolen from Syria, and Iraqi oil and all the contracts to nominally build Iraq, in which the money evaporated between the corrupt Iraqi officials, and the American firms who promised to build whether a hospital or a road. Nothing comes out of American Occupation all over the world, a waste is all that is left, and divided people to add to that.
The Sovjet had the same role in Afghanistan as today in Syriah.I already knew that at the time because i had to relative high profile working friends. One a son of a former ambassador from Afghaistan in Germany.Tthe other one a son of a cousin of Mohammed Zahir Shah. They fleed when the Taliban started taking over. The mainstream historia is all propaganda .Still today
I gave up on the U.S. and moved my family to Costa Rica 7 years ago and haven't been back! You have to vote with your feet, since your vote in the States is worthless in a corporatized, fascist, plutocracy!
Regarding about the young man’s question russia n china r dictatorship, as if america is not dictatorship enough? what country dictates the using of petrol dollar? what country dictates a country’s leader? what country dictates other countries chip makers should move to america? i bet his self righteousness didn’t see it, or see it believes it is entitled because it is done by united snakes
AND - You missed the 911 INSIDE JOB - PA-THE-TIC indeed.
Withdraw with their tails between their legs...Shameless.
The people around the world should know the 10 billion dollars of afghan people looted by the pirate country was Afghan people money on Afghanistan's banking system to circled daily business and economy. That's how much money afghan people had in the bank. When pirate stealed the money the entire system in Afghanistan clapsed and coast afghan people more than 500 billion dollars due to lost every other aspect of live. One third of the money already on its way to Europe for digestion the rest of the money got different direction including 100 of military airplane. Our massage to the people of the world is weak up and stand against this fascist pirate or you will be in the same situation in different way very soon
The US may have started as humanities hope, but now it's humanities biggest embarrassment! A pathetic stain on humanity.
Personally on the subject of international relations, I’d rather work with an authoritarian country that generally leaves other countries alone, than a democracy that aggressively tries to subjugate other countries. I’d be sympathetic with their citizens who might be oppressed, wouldn’t want the system for my own country, but to be perfectly honest that’s more palatable to me than a country that treats their own citizens very well but cruel and exploitative to other countries’ people. You’d think that how a govt treats their citizens correlates with how they treat other countries, but that is not true at all. Even in personal life we know it’s not true; so many examples of abusive parents who are wonderful to neighbours, and conversely people who protect and spoil their own family at the expense of abuse and exploitation of others. If we can work with non-interventionist authoritarian countries (remember that monarchies are authoritarian countries too), I’d like to think that over generations, and increasing safety and prosperity, they’d eventually relax and become less authoritarian. But it takes a long time. Diffusion of values through Asia from the more advanced continental civilisations to the younger ones happened, but it took a few hundred patient years. But if you work with a democratic but imperialist country, you run a high risk of being destroyed, and it is very unlikely to influence them to become less imperialist, no matter how many hundreds of years it takes. In other words, what I want from my leader is to for them to protect me and make possible a decent life. But what I want from another nation’s leader first and foremost, is for them to restrain their nation from harming mine. For this reason I really don’t care how they are able to restrain their nation; through democratic values or through religious commitment or through authoritarian control.
I agree with a lot of the things talked about in this video except the part about communism. You can't force a political and ideological system into a country where majority don't believe in it. For Afghanistan, Islam was and is a way of life eventhough I agree most afghans didn't practice Islam as it should've been but it clashed with communism, so it didn't take much encouragement from the US to overthrow the communist government. Also the fact that the communist parties in Afghanistan committed atrocities and human rights abuses did not help either.
For Vijay Prashad: When you mentioned the countries which the US wanted to get rid of, you mentioned Islamic Republic as one of them. I guess you meant Islamic Republic of Iran. You omitted Iran.
all must unite against usa
Force is the only language that imperialists understand.
Could you give me an example of a socialist country that is superior to capitalist? A raw model?
You guys have never heard of Dhaarmic Society. Pity!
Please tell us what it is?
I am writing a detailed blog on Dharma and its enemy the imperialism.
@@krishnasastri6740 "the" imperialism? 'and its enemy, imperialism'
Ha ha ha ha....
U.S.A. nead to anstand that world is a new plast. And nead to look at it as is.