Can the West win the
war in Afghanistan? This film gains remarkable
access to both sides in the most important conflict
in the world today. It includes dramatic frontline
footage from a Taliban attack on a remote American
outpost near the border with Pakistan. It also
speaks to Taliban fighters in Pakistan who cross the
border to fight the Americans. Losing Afghanistan
shows that instead of defeating the Taliban, NATO’s
strategy is drawing neighbouring Pakistan into the
West’s nightmare; the formation of a radical Islamic
state with nuclear bombs in South Asia. We gained
the only known interview with a Pakistan Taliban
commander conducted by a Western journalist since
9/11. We also interviewed Shah Abdul Aziz, the man
accused by Pakistan’s authorities of kidnapping and
beheading a Polish engineer in February 2009. We
then speak to the architects of the war, including
Tony Blair and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage. They argue that that the West
simply cannot afford to lose Afghanistan.
