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Have no leverage. and now basically the taliban the desk agent at an airport. let me see the passport, no, sorry. here is an ak-47 to the gut. you cant come through. we are having to bribe these terrorists just to get americans out. and joe says the allies love him. everything is great, nato loves him. meanwhile the british our biggest ally just sanctioned him in parliament. and he goes out there and says, you know, the americans, were not hearing any stories of people having trouble getting to ...

Many are saying, they want to look like theyve got the splits under control and theyre not going to want to give way likely and they have the islamic state group on their patch looking for inroads. and its quite interesting that the fmandal— its quite interesting that the financial times talking about how we are not— financial times talking about how we are not completely without leverage. the taliban in the financial pressures put on them, the possibility there and it is likely depending on...

What is set up is by the time they came around, the u.s. forces, nato forces were not enough to hold the country. theres not a lot of reporting saying how there was an idea that maybe you could have enough forces in country or biden could send in a couple thousands more to hold kabul. you have footprint with united states can continue to have leverage in the country force the negotiation to continue longer to keep government in tact. unfortunately, look how fast he left. this argument could be m...

Bombing at the gate. that is why they closed it yesterday. isis would love to sow more uncertainty on the ground. taliban know they have leverage with a biden administration, so how do they use it. youre right there will be an inflection point. white house will say are we staying or more troops? nothing will fix the situation at all. will: i want to get to sound from former president donald trump. i would assume, correct me if im wrong, on brightside the taliban has no capabilities maintaining o...

Unfortunately they have had literally almost half a century of difficulty and... ..you know, hardship. but there is a... there is a group of young people today who have tasted some of the freedom in the last the freedom in the last 20 years and i think they will... they will find a way to reassert themselves and i think what we have got to decide now is... and we should do this on a coordinated basis with the key countries coming together — is what can we do to help and support them? and yes, ...

Americans who are sitting ducks. if we dont change his plan quickly well get people killed by isis, not the taliban. judge jeanine: it seems no one is in charge. when you say we should take back the bagram air base, how do you do that? what leverage to we have when we get up and leave in the middle of the night and dont tell our nato partners we are leaving and dont even answer their phone calls, what leverage to we have to take back bagram. >> we have the finest military in the world and we sho...

Americans who are sitting ducks. if we dont change his plan quickly well get people killed by isis, not the taliban. judge jeanine: it seems no one is in charge. when you say we should take back the bagram air base, how do you do that? what leverage to we have when we get up and leave in the middle of the night and dont tell our nato partners we are leaving and dont even answer their phone calls, what leverage to we have to take back bagram. >> we have the finest military in the world and we sho...

Deal with the rights of women — this was when he was being interviewed earlier in the week — around the world, by military force, is not rational. but without that military presence in afghanistan, does america have any potential leverage over the regime that will be left there? probably not. but american policy on this has been incoherent for a long time. when obama was first elected, he said afghanistan was the right war, so we will persevere with the war in afghanistan and pull out then. ...

And you know, they are also, lets not forget, for the most part, they are no longer operating on american or european soil. so another thing for americans and europeans to forget. unfortunately, if you live in those countries, northern parts of nigeria, for example, you cant forget because they are a part of daily life. they are a danger to you every single day. you mentioned that, and its a very good point. janet, on some of these broader questions that got caught up in the aftermath of the afg...

Of afghanistan is they will give protection and succour to al-qaeda. you have got isis already in the country, trying to operate at the same time. you know, you look round the world... and the only people really cheering this decision are the people hostile to western interests. do you think inevitably that britain and its allies will end up back in afghanistan? because of what you have just said? i cant tell. the one thing i know is right now the most immediate thing is that... and britain can ...