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1 - Afghanistan (18 Years of War)

The Red Line

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Is the Taliban a Corruption Regime?

In vitnam, we had an unpopular regime with an army that was corrupt. And god knows the a government is tremendously corrupt. I began to realize that the talabam have more heart, more dedication to the struggle than the afghan soldiers. They see this as a battle of the faith, a trans generatial war to expel the infidels. So i see a lot of parallels to us to transport this unpopular regime in sigon, in vietnam in the sixties and seventies to our current struggle," he says.

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