Posted on 09/11/2006 10:39:32 PM PDT by HAL9000
It's sad that didn't live to see the fall of the Taliban and the first free election in Afghanistan.
His country failed him.We tried to help.I liked him in this story plus the guy was cute.
It was for me too. Mainly because I had already known about the other casualties of the attack in the U.S.
I didn't really know about him until the movie. Also because it really shouldn't have happened, we should have been helping him fight the Taliban long before 2001, and the revelation that the U.S. foreign aid to Afghanistan in the amount of hundreds of millions was going to the Taliban and not the Northern Alliance was infuriating.
If you get a chance, pick up George Friedman's (STRATFOR)book called America's Secret War. He does an outstanding job laying out background so we can understand what happened over there leading up to the attack. He goes into great detail regarding the tribes and what it took to get the initial CIA and special forces on the ground there.
The mindset of these people are so different than ours. It's a great read for anybody interested in the War on Terror.
Who was the congressman who immediately knew something was up when he was assassinated? He's a republican, but I can't remember his name offhand.
On the 9th of September, the Afghan people celebrated Rememberance Day for Masood. I was talking with one of our local subcontractors about it. "This is a sad day for us" he told me.
Killing Masood guaranteed no strong Afghan government for the foreseeable future. Karzai is a gentlemen, quite photogenic in his little fur hat and striped coat, and he's Pashtu to placate them, but he's not up to the task. He'd make a good mayor.
Masood would have been a president of epic proportions.
I believe things would have been much different in Afghanistan if he were to have lived beyond his untimely death. It's just too bad the pointy heads back in Washington didn't listen to what he was seeing, hearing and saying at that time.
I read in the entry of him in Wikipedia that Hamid Karzai designated a national holiday in Massoud's name after the Taliban had been unseated from power. Karzai considered Massoud a national hero.
One of my heroes. He captivated me after seeing a documentary of his life.
BigSkyFreeper(((Hugs))) See how a TV movie can affect you.I am so liking this person-Some Mother's Son.God Bless him for trying.
It touched me as well. His story demonstrates one of the ugly things about our inconsistent, and to often capricious, foreign policy.
Typical Clinton obstruction and obfuscation.
One of the best and most memorable lines of his from that movie was "Isn't there a man in Washington anymore?". I especially liked it when he gave Reagan credit in Afghanistan's defeat of the Soviet Union. Reagan considered Massoud a close friend, and Massoud considered Reagan his close friend. Their friendship was mutual.
I watched that.It is hard to know any of them let alone yourself.In the end other people measure you-good or bad if you are out there.Damm why is he dead now that I just learned about him.Thank you Massoud .
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The most unbelieveable part of his story was the intelligence community under Clinton's command didn't deem him credible enough. He was the only reason the Clinton administration knew where UBL was at any given time in Afghanistan. Ever since Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001, the intelligence community has been stymied over the whereabouts of UBL.
That's precisely why they knew they had to kill him.
He should have been more careful about meeting the journalists, but then again, he was probably desperate for any help from the other countries in his fight against the Taliban, and thought that an interview with a foreign journalist would help. So in the end he died because we didn't give him the help that we promised.
and Bush has hade mistakes in IRAQ, compared to Toon's in Afghanistan?
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