Ex-Marine: We Lost in Afghanistan and We're Losing at Home Too

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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0:30.7	Not only do we lose that conflict in Afghanistan, but we left a huge amount of weapons and capability in the
0:39.0	country. And the Taliban are more powerful than they were in 2001. Not only that, we have imported
0:46.4	tens of thousands of people with the same ideology as al-Qaeda or the Taliban into Britain. We have a force of around
0:59.6	40,000 Islamists who hate this country. That number is more than half in the British Army.
1:07.5	James Glancy, welcome to Trignometry. You have a fascinating story.
1:12.6	Royal Marine filmmaker, Brexit, party, MIPA, lots of different things.
1:17.7	But the one thing we really wanted to talk to you about is you mentioned in your movie,
1:23.9	actually, Afghanistan, that you sign up for the Royal Marines and a week later, 9-11 happens.
1:29.3	You end up going over to Afghanistan,
1:31.2	which at the time you thought was a just war
1:33.2	and a good thing to do.
1:35.0	And now you feel like not only did we lose that war,
1:39.8	we're actually importing some of the people who beat us
1:42.9	into this country.
1:45.0	I mean, if you think of our reason for going there, it was because of 9-11 and you had the Islamic movements around al-Qaida hosted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, we went there to remove those people
2:04.6	and to try and kill that ideology.
2:08.6	And that felt like the right mission, the right thing to do, because clearly militant Islamism, or Islamo-fascism, as it's also known, is an ideology
2:22.7	which is fundamentally incompatible with the West of our way of life. Now, we are in January 2025
2:30.5	not only do we lose that conflict in Afghanistan, but we left a huge amount of weapons
2:38.3	and capability in the country. And the Taliban, who we went to fight, are more powerful than they
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