What We Need to Know About Afghanistan and What’s Next

By Orly Benaroch Light
WILPF San Diego

The September 11 attacks are remembered as a double tragedy. The attacks on that day killed almost 3,000 people, and the wars that followed killed and injured hundreds of thousands more. Our thoughts and prayers for the victims, survivors, and families.

After 20 years of war, the Taliban are back. Questions are being asked about how the group will govern Afghanistan, and what their rule means for women, human rights, and political freedoms.

Ex-official Matthew Hoh states that the American media provides false information about what's been happening in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. The media has said things about the war, about how Afghanistan prior to the withdrawal was in a period of relative stability, and how there had been progress. These are complete lies and fabrications. Please watch our fact checking about 9/11, war in Afghanistan, media manipulation, and why Afghanistan is still the worst place to be a woman.

Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a member of the Eisenhower Media Initiative. He is a 100 percent disabled Marine combat veteran, and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the Afghan war by the Obama administration.

Orly Benaroch Light is an Entrepreneur, Women's Achievement & Empowerment, Human Rights Defender, Speaker, and Mom.