i am at the ready today i'm with ben anderson he's an independent filmmaker of documentaries and a writer we have a book out right now called no worse enemy ben has been working with us ever ice for a number of years he's also been reporting from afghanistan for a number of years he was first embedded with british forces around two thousand and seven you recently made a trip to afghanistan in december of two thousand and twelve so we're going to watch ben's new documentary which is called this is what winning looks like it's shocking and an eye opening look at the state of afghanistan today that over the next year another thirty four thousand american troops will come home from afghanistan this drawdown will continue and by the end of next year our war in afghanistan will be over international troops will continue to train advise and assist the afghans and fight alongside them when needed but we will shift into a support role as afghans step forward but we must finish the job we started in afghanistan and end this war responsibly this is what the american military is saying in the american government but you don't believe it because you've seen to the contrary yeah and the british and american marines on the ground that i believe it either i mean it's all is now is about government who in some areas make the taliban the kind of good guys and when you remember the taliban were welcomed into power in the mid ninety's because they looked like the good just muslims in comparison to the warlords it feels a really similar to not here we're not here to friend anybody on if we say something that may offend you you know we apologize ahead of time to let us know and we'll fix their way to monitor everyone is believes the training is being accelerated now as we leave the training is almost nonexistent now most of the troop forces are pulled back to the main bases which they never leave because as i say the people on the ground i think of have given up on there being any chance of success taliban kidnapped his brother kidnapping their brothers is just the same as you know is kidnapping any random person it's kidnapping it's a crime it's not it's not illegal to kidnap just any person only of the taliban and they catch other than being the brothers of the taliban who kidnapped his brother haven't done anything wrong they haven't committed a crime so they cannot be arrested if they haven't done anything wrong themselves just because the brothers of the taliban does not mean that they are can do the marines i was with turned up to spend the night this patrol base but the afghan police have pulled the security barrier down to selling scrap metal at the local bazaar so they had no security whatsoever and their base for the marines couldn't stay of the truck with that with the four detainees in the back three surrounding police patrol bases came under attack from the taliban someone somewhere i'm sure who said remember me swore the majority of the russians i remember we left all those weapons there where it's been years and millions of dollars getting those weapons particular this thing and miss out back we're not making that same mistake again so these guys have got a k forty guys out if you guys don't want to help we'll leave the sandbags you guys figure it out we'll take it out here with us we're here to help you guys out to make your best to make your tower safer that way you guys don't get shot from all directions right months the acting police chief has also just vanished and he's got no idea where he's gone all along you know what's happening and his finger on the trigger ready in case any insider attack ten or eleven of them actually work but they're collecting the fuel money and oil money for all the other vehicles even though they can't actually operate on that step initially the same thing because the rounds when they come off the vehicles here and that's it's usually the that they the rounds the interesting is the guy was born this vest when he came in he was in the back of one of these trucks like this and we went up to bring a white sheet and they won't let us cover a coast guard disturbing i mean there's just a kid sitting back there you know human but they don't seem to think that way so that was the first time i'd seen that song but what's amazing is he's really candid about this this thing this soldier he's one of those guy i mean he was he was more sort of emotionally invested in this than anybody else and he's the one who you know i said sometimes almost like traumatized by what he couldn't do i was kind of forced upon him he had no choice but you know let me go out filming with him but he's he's one of those guys who just couldn't lie i with a lot of bark a lot of bite so you know you there's there's some things that if in order to get the mission accomplished like i say you know you don't turn a blind eye to anything we report everything but there are certain things that you know th that normally where you would just be like hey this is just a no go we're not going to do this on the cheap in order to get the missions market the mission accomplished in order for them to actually go out and still hold security and hold p b s you kind of got  i think by the end of this because you know even when guys were abducting and raping young boys and murdering them nothing happened as a result of his report he was reporting everything he saw up to over two hundred people in the you know in the in the chain of command nothing securing the population of the people and treating them right i mean these are the guys that are easy to work with but then you have over here the p p commander who we know is so kidnapping boys and sexually molesting i'll be if you know if you are robbing the people he treats the people saying i'm like a tens of thousands of civilians were killed and entering into these seven villages with pictures of massoud everywhere it's almost like me driving around new york with a picture of bin laden you know in the window of my car that's an exaggeration but it's you don't look like the army you have come to protect for us or not fight against us and that's what these guys are the afghan local  pretty a touch it felt like they were there for the photo op and to take a few boxes and then and then i mean that the marine major who was so open only just about all the problems you have in kidnapping murder drug abuse child rape he was there had to sit through this briefing seventy five percent of the population now today and that process will continue until they are they are in the lead for the entire country we have developed now a way to to move forward that will make afghans responsible increasingly for their own future and for their own security and their own processes and that is at issue as it should be thank post two thousand and fourteen we can't really tell what will happen the doors are open as i said earlier to reconciliation process that will bring back into afghanistan if they choose to take that path and for our part we intend to continue a assistance in partnership with the afghans going forward if they wish well we have today to support the peace jirga here in sangin which is a gathering of several hundred of the most important tribal leaders from around this area to talk about peace and reconciliation i think peace involves people making hard choices and i think it's about the choices that people make not about the label they are carrying now if the taliban choose that they want to participate in politics in afghanistan if they choose to renounce violence if they choose to politics in this country who respect the constitution you respect the rights of people have a right to take part in public it's in this country just as in any other country because companies say if you are local people here who the bad guys in this area they would say the police  population here in sank game has changed hugely over the last few years and then at the end of that briefing that was delayed by now and a half so i said to them don't talk to me just uber for now just say this won't affect your career but go and speak to him and tell him ask him tell you what's really going the exact opposite is true so i said statement after this saying the diplomats visited the once insurgent hotbed of sangin and saw firsthand the progress being made which which i think was the point of going there really not not to actually talk to guys like