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Their neighbors, whether it be pakistan or china. so they dont want that american leash around it as well. >> they criticized pakistans relationship with the taliban. but what kind of relationship do the two countries have? what does that mean for the united states? does the united states have any leverage over pakistan in trying to shape what happens internally within afghanistan. they want to say there is some effort with afghanistan and pakistan. why after 20 years has america left afghanista...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

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, weve 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 ...

Its a mess. okay. so now its a mess, we have got to pick up the pieces. the "wall street journal" today makes the point that the administration needs to be emphatic and say to the taliban, we dont care what you think, were going to get every american or every american ally out and youre going to let us. so how does the administration do that with the taliban, which, you know, their all star team, their cabinet is full of people on our americas most wanted list. >> well, steve, we have made it re...

What are the opinions you are hearing, mina? because if you dont release these assets, it is the general population that will suffer, they are going hungry, many people have tried to leave the country because they dont want to live in that regime. as simon says, the leverage is there, but it is not obvious how you use it. well, what are the levers that are there? part of it is this recognition element and that if assets are released, it is a recognition of the government, implicitly. but also th...

If the international community wanted to think of a way to get aid to those afghans who need it, they should say that those ngos... what remains of them, of course, some of them are in hiding, some of their members have fled because they are concerned, but many are still on the ground, so they should be enabled, be it the uk or us or others, theyve worked with some of these local entities, they can turn around and use some of that leverage, turn to the taliban government and say, "we want to wor...

If that is possible, that could be a way to get back to some sort of negotiation process, but also enable some of the local actors there and give them a bit more agency. simon, very briefly, if the leverage with the assets doesnt work, the americans are already talking about drone strikes if terrorism starts to flare up again? that is the unknown question. the taliban have said i they are not going to be a place, a tent under which terrorist - organisations can gather. obviously the invasion in ...

On foreign aid, so thats - day—to—day spending. so if you cut that off, _ you have got a serious problem. the other one is that they had about $9 billion to $10 billioni of foreign currency reserves - and what countries generally do with that is they use . it to manage the value of their own currency - in international markets. that has been frozen - and what that can do is send currencies into freefall- and you get hyperinflation. now, we have seen a bit of that, but perhaps not| as much as...