The journalist says the Taliban in Afghanistan by overthrowing that country's most progressive governing John Pilger is one of The world's most ment - which in the 1970s had given acclaimed investigative journalists equal rights to women. and documentary filmmakers. He is a recipient of several prestigious In planning to leave Alghanistan, the awards, including an Emmy and a Trump administration chose the BAFTA. He has contributed to the Taliban to discuss the transfer of rious international publications and power in Doha. Taliban World Service, and Al Jazeera. Mr. to the Western - supported Pilger has directed more than 60 democratically elected government? ies capturing some of the Afghan government was not the important events of the 20th and democratic, neither was it democrat 21st centuries. In 2003, he directed ically elected. It was a corrupt shell, Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies Military Force in Afghanistan - you possible for a super power to retain and Donald Trump and his planners in the War on Terror. In this inter would now be much richer. its dominance without dealing with knew it would fall without us. back View, he talks about the present pol the threatening countries? ing. They were being expedient. itical developments in Afghanistan, As someone who has observed West Modern powers can and do assert When the U.S. abandoned the South the war on terror, and the history of Asia for decades, who are the major their power without behaving like the Vietnamese regime in 1975 - which it the Taliban. Edited excerpts: stakeholders in the Arab world? The 19th century enforcers. China's 'Belt had installed the regime...