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The situation in afghanistan continues to be extremely difficult, getting more difficult, i would say. and our priority is to make sure that we deliver on our obligations to uk nationals in afghanistan, to all those who have helped the british effort in afghanistan over 20 years, and to get them out as fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in october 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, joining us—led action against al-qaeda and the taliban. by the time combat operations ended in 2014, a...

Was coming. weve known for months. we knew before joe biden entered office. when it was finally implemented, why did it go haywire? what could have been done differently? >> well, i think it started many years ago with the corruption from the u.s. influence in there. we were unable to control corruption. and the corruption undercut all the efforts at governance in there. money was changing hands. and it was the same old afghan game. this time with the americans rather than the russians. and we w...

Jihadists, willing to sacrifice themselves in suicide bombings. that doesnt make any sense. that is part of the reason why this war was lost few decision-makers. they never even done endemic understood who they were fighting. >> trace: we knew kind of going in, did we not, that the afghan military was robust? ready to fight alongside americans, but you take the americans out of it, there was not much of an appetite for these military people to go about pushing back the taliban. >> well, part of ...

As fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in october 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, joining us—led action against al-qaeda and the taliban. by the time combat operations ended in 2014, a54 uk soldiers and military personnel had died. successive prime ministers stressed their commitment to the country and protecting the progress made. today, cross—party fear that progress could vanish. the real danger is that were going to see every female mp murdered. were going to see ministers s...

Afghanistan could become a haven for terrorists. after relative stability afghanistan was not perfect but a pretty good investment for relatively little cost, the us had not been engaged in combat operations since 2015 and it had not been front—page news years so theres been a push, biden has wanted to fulfil his campaign promise to pull out, its not like this has been a big rallying cry, are necessarily going to cost the democrats the mid—term elections. the peace process that was conducted...

Scramble to get out. the situation in afghanistan continues to be extremely difficult, getting more difficult, i would say. and our priority is to make sure that we deliver on our obligations to uk nationals in afghanistan, to all those who have helped the british effort in afghanistan over 20 years, and to get them out as fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in october 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, joining us—led action against al-qaeda and the taliban. by the time combat operat...

Administration that they will stand down? do you believe that will happen? or do you believe that they may go out with gunfire? >> i think we are going to see taliban 2.0 thats going to look an awful lot like 1.0. in terms of abiding by agreements, they broke pretty much every part of the agreement they made with the trump administration to include not conducting combat operations. they didnt come in with a cease-fire. they havent used political process. they have broken everything. i think, unf...

Money and lives to afghanistan. some of the fiercest fighting was here in helmand. the effort ends with a frantic scramble to get out. the situation in afghanistan continues to be extremely difficult, getting more difficult, i would say. and our priority is to make sure that we deliver on our obligations to uk nationals in afghanistan, to all those who have helped the british effort in afghanistan over 20 years, and to get them out as fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in octobe...

The situation in afghanistan continues to be extremely difficult, getting more difficult, i would say. and our priority is to make sure that we deliver on our obligations to uk nationals in afghanistan, to all those who have helped the british effort in afghanistan over 20 years, and to get them out as fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in october 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, joining us—led action against al-qaeda and the taliban. by the time combat operations ended in 2014, a...

The situation in afghanistan continues to be extremely difficult, getting more difficult, i would say. and our priority is to make sure that we deliver on our obligations to uk nationals in afghanistan, to all those who have helped the british effort in afghanistan over 20 years, and to get them out as fast as we can. uk troops first went to afghanistan in october 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, joining us—led action against al-qaeda and the taliban. by the time combat operations ended in 2014, a...