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And possibly some roots. thats, that is what we are reduced to now. and it is very sad to hear that the, that our envoys to the taliban are now pleading with them not to shoot at us as we retreat. when you think how this started, a peace agreement we somehow brokered welcomed a reality. the reality is this. the evacuation, and it is an evacuation, of a number of u.s. personnel, but also a number of afghans. i honestly dont know how theyre going to do that with embassy afghan staff and especially...

This country as an interpreter for 17 years and i came back and i joined the u.s. military, served this country as u.s. military soldier and deployed back to afghanistan. it is a difficult situation for myself. again, if i put myself in the shoes of the other interpreters who do not have any u.s. contact or local interpreters in afghanistan, their life is much danger as my family life is. and they have no way to get out of the country. >> said, are you surprised by how quickly these provincial c...

No country has done more for the people of afghanistan than we have. when it comes to afghans who have worked directly with us with the united states government in jobs like interpreters and translators, we, in fact, are mounting an ambitious effort to physically relocate these individuals from afghanistan to begin new lives back here in the united states. so far this operation, operation allies refuge has been under way for a couple of weeks now. weve already located 1200 of these afghans and t...

Province which looks like it could fall at some point today. and at the same time, andrea, you have a situation where thousands of people continue to flee all of these provinces, the more areas that are taken over and the more they continue to make their way, these very dangerous journeys to the capital city and we spoke to a number of people today who worked as support staff, interpreters, cooks, construction workers for the nato project and they are terrified. we spoke to one man who came up h...

Come to love many of the people he served and fought with including the afghans and it is extremely heartbreaking to see how this is ending. we are going to have decades to debate this, the missteps, problems, the lost opportunities, the opportunity to save many of those young girls that you talked about. my focus right now in the days and in the weeks ahead is that we have young women. we have afghan interpreters and folks that work in civil society. we now have an obligation to conduct a broad...

Self-defense. that was going to be my question. a tactical purpose for sending these troops there. you described in very general terms. is there a secondary effect you are having by sending these troops into kabul sending a message to the taliban: these troops are here. dont attack us. we are here to carry out our mission and at the same time saying we are here to support the government of kabul, dont attack kabul? >> are you suggesting there is a contradiction there? >> no, i am asking: is ther...

The reality is this. the evacuation, and it is an evacuation, of a number of u.s. personnel, but also a number of afghans. i honestly dont know how theyre going to do that with embassy afghan staff and especially with interpreters and others who risk our lives to help us. how are we going to get them out? >> youre talking about tens of thousands of afghans who have had close relationships with the u.s. in this time. obviously this country, you know, sadly in vietnam, we saw this. weve seen this ...

Didnt mention afghanistan once. even as we are watching what is unfolding there. so they are essentially saying, you know, look towards china. look away from afghanistan. but we cant do that right now because of what is unfolding on the ground because of the human rights implications, because of this very, very quickly deteriorating situation. john? >> the fact that they have send thousands of troops in to help get people out, that indicates it is not going down the way they planned. kylie atwoo...

As to the sort of longer term what happens, if, for example, a terrorist threat, al-anda, reconstituted, was able to plan attacks, but the americans and the british have said that they have capabilities, they have assets like aircraft, for example, drones, that they could use over the horizon, in other words, out of the country. but, you know, this is essentially the end of both the american first, they made the decision to leave, and the british military presence. that deadline is september 11t...

From the capital. the taliban have taken control of 11 provincial capitals. they also claim to have taken kandahar. the us and other foreign troops withdrew after 20 years of military operations, but now the us is sending 3000 soldiers back to help evacuate a significant amount of embassy staff. this is a temporary mission with a narrow focus. as with all deployments of our troops into harms way, our commanders have the inherent right of self—defence and any attack on them can and will be met ...