CHENGDU, China, July 13 (Xinhua) With around two weeks to go before the 31st FISU Summer World University Games open in Chengdu, the Main Media Center (MMC)
forced to scale back business. it is a bitter blow- a bitter blow. incredibly frustrating. a bitter blow. incredibly frustrating. last - a bitter blow. incredibly frustrating. last time i a bitter blow. incredibly frustrating. last time in a bitter blow. incredibly - frustrating. last time in february we were closed down for five days, and to four days before christmas, without any real update of what will happen for christmas is frustrating to say the least. to say the least. from hotels like this to family to say the least. from hotels like this to family homes to say the least. from hotels like this to family homes committees j this to family homes committees outages are impacting neighbourhoods across kent and sussex. from crowley, paddock to tunbridge wells. carol williams s water has been on and off since thursday. we carol williams s water has been on and off since thursday. carol williams s water has been on and off since thursday. we have been without water and off
that we listen to all of them who may be talking about exclusively the worst case, some best case, some in between. here is what i could say in this setting. and we could take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal, that could potentially in the worst case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so that is back in february. and that was more or less where things stood in the winter and into the spring. by july, and you re exactly right, that the situation was deteriorating as the taliban continues to make progress on the ground throughout the su summer, in july, they indicated it was more likely than not that the taliban would take over by the end of the year. the end of this year.
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there