Hamid Karzai
Former President of AfghanistanWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Carter MalkasianGUEST
They help coordinate the strikes.
Carter MalkasianGUEST
They help work with locals who are willing to fight the Taliban, like Hamid Karzai.
Carter MalkasianGUEST
And they managed to overthrow the Taliban very, very quickly.
Carter MalkasianGUEST
In fact, when people, when you talk about what happened in 2021 with the Afghan military falling apart, What looks a lot like what happened is 2001, how the Taliban fell apart.
Pepe EscobarGUEST
They could not have a Afghan nationalist leader after things happened.
Pepe EscobarGUEST
They needed somebody in control to run Afghanistan, and it happened to be Hamid Karzai.
Pepe EscobarGUEST
That is another story.
Pepe EscobarGUEST
When I came back from Afghanistan, Judge, the, I was in Peshawar, the, let's say the, the Pashtun Rome, the capital of the tribal areas, uh, by the end of August.
Richard BarronsGUEST
At that time, the Taliban had left.
Richard BarronsGUEST
The Northern Alliance dominated Kabul, and President Karzai was in the wings.
Richard BarronsGUEST
And we were tasked with providing enough stability just in Kabul for a new government to be formed and find its feet, and we knew nothing about the situation.
Laurel RappHOST
situation.Farea, you were born and raised in Yemen.
Ryan DawsonHOST
It could be MEK in Iraq and Iran, Jandallah in Balochistan, al-Shabaab in Somalia, al-Nusra in Syria, or the foreign aid Rina governments, which work in the same way as the privateer model, such as al-Hadi in Yemen, Mubarak in Egypt, Museveni in Uganda, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Sheikh Sharif in Somalia, al-Khalifa in Bahrain, and so on.
Ryan DawsonHOST
And of course, Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.
Ryan DawsonHOST
The U.S. began its al-Qaeda Frankenstein back in the 80s by backing the Mujahideen and their mercenary special forces al-Qaeda, and then the Taliban in their civil war.
Ryan DawsonHOST
And then the U.S. changed sides on paper to the Northern Alliance, but in reality it was just the CIA's occupation of the country for its own interest.
Gary BerntsenGUEST
We had a team in Bamiyan with the Hazara.
Gary BerntsenGUEST
We had teams – we had two teams, ultimately small teams, with Karzai and Shirzai in the south.
Gary BerntsenGUEST
And then we had one more team with – out in Helmand.
Gary BerntsenGUEST
I'm trying to think of his name.
Peter BergenGUEST
There is no peace agreement.
Peter BergenGUEST
Karzai, the elected Afghan first leader, I think he was quite interested in doing a peace agreement.
Peter BergenGUEST
I mean, look, in Afghanistan, low-level warfare is pretty endemic.
Peter BergenGUEST
And most people see which way the wind is blowing and they make peace and they want to keep their heads on their shoulders.
Peter BergenGUEST
If you go back, it's very hard for people to recall this, but, you know, the focus on do we have enough search and rescue before we send any American troops in? And of course, So the CIA was first in.
Peter BergenGUEST
And then, of course, there were ODAs from fifth group special forces that went in in the north and then also in the south, one led by Captain Mark Neuch and one led by Captain Jason Amerine, who brought Karzai in, the next leader of Afghanistan.
Peter BergenGUEST
But there was a lot of risk aversion, which is really hard to...
Peter BergenGUEST
And in fact, there's a guy called Dick Schultz, and you may have read his work, Jack.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
The Afghans have this code called Pashtunwali, where the guest has to be protected, but the guest also has responsibilities.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
But in this case, even some Taliban leaders recognize that it's one thing to give your guest a guest house, but when the guest house is now going to blow up because you're there, uh, better to tell the guest it's, it's time to leave.
Claudiana BlancoCORRESPONDENT
Most Afghans had no idea they were harboring this dangerous guest.
Claudiana BlancoCORRESPONDENT
However, some of Lisa's sources, staff members of the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, the place where she always stayed whenever she was in town, and where she had even lived, told her they had encountered Osama bin Laden.
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George W. BushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our commitment to a stable and free and peaceful Afghanistan is a long-term commitment.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
And I remember thinking then, "How long is the long run? How long is it this time that the world will stand with Afghanistan?" But it wasn't long before that hope, that shining star began, th- that light began to be dimmed, and there were missteps, and it was a very complex environment.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
It takes a long time to em- emerge out of war and to build peace, and there were missteps and mistakes on both sides, on the side of Afghan leaders, on the side of the Western countries who really were coming into a society and a culture which wasn't their own and trying to, in some ways, to remake it in the image of their own societies.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
And while Afghans wanted to advance, they still were Afghanistan, and they wanted to remain Afghans and in Afghanistan.
Helen ClarkGUEST
And then two critical mistakes across Afghanistan and, and Iraq.
Helen ClarkGUEST
Firstly, there was a decision taken, I understand over President, um, Karzai of Afghanistan's wishes, that the Taliban would not be included in the Bonn Process.
Helen ClarkGUEST
When you exclude completely-
John CampbellHOST
Yeah, yeah
Alex JonesHOST
Of course.
Nate KornackiGUEST
But that's what we do every time, right? This is what we did in Afghanistan initially when we put in Karzai.
Nate KornackiGUEST
This is what we did when we removed Saddam.
Nate KornackiGUEST
When we removed Gaddafi, we just removed Assad from Syria and put al-Jilani, the former leader of al-Qaeda, in place.
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