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Willing to give you to keep you on this side of them. >> the question is whether you can use aide as leverage and whether the taliban care and whether you can compromise in using that aid on so many american principles. but what we need to be careful about is blaming the taliban for a country that already is on a massive economic crisis where the poverty rate has doubled over the last five years. with a population increase far beyond the level of the economy and where 80 % of the governments inc...

Executed fighters. a lot of misery for a lot of people. and whether or not theres change or difference in that, is yet to be scene. i think theres a lot of reason to doubt it. >> general, what do you expect to see from the taliban, particularly in light of the atrociies they committed and the aims of the new regime might be? >> i think adam said they were going to rocket back to the next century. we should assume that the 40 million people in afghanistan, which have enjoyed institutions, tv pape...

What leverage does that leave the americans in future going forward? joe biden hasnt spoken yet, he is going to have to address the country stopping this may have been donald trumps policy but itsjoe bidens and limitation and i think he will pay quite a price for the shambles that has unfolded over the last few days. in the uk, the prime minister borisjohnson has said that its now clear there will be a new government in kabul, and that every effort is being made to move british citizens from afg...

United states can pull here is money. whether or not financial aid and trying to help afghans that way, that remains to be seen, too. >> what should the international community expect? is this the taliban staying funded? or are there other levels that other countries can pull? >> my guess is that nato countries, the u.s. in particular, have no continuing leverage at all over the taliban. >> they will take control of the country and rule it as intended. there may be a public optics to it. but at ...

"yes, we will leave, but on the condition that you stop attacking legitimate government in afghanistan and we can be sure that we will leave a peaceful afghanistan to the future of the afghan people." that is how we should have dealt with this. we have very little leverage from outside and without any presence in the country any longer. but what can countries like the uk and your own do now? is it a case of actually having to recognise the taliban government? after all, nobody elected the people...

There were universities stood up, infrastructure projects under way, a middle class that was taking hold in a number of cities. but the taliban were not weakened, they were just waiting. as for those that are saying it is stunning in speed, perhaps how quickly it moved across the country, it did catch many by surprise. we shouldnt be surprised by the fact they were able to do this in the way they were. this was not a military march across the country. there was very little fighting in each of th...

Taliban at all? >> thats true. theres interested that can be mutually met. they will be seeking some measure of credibility. some amount of humanitarian aid. and the united states needs to be looking at the suite of its options and of its leverage. we have a significant footprint in this country and significant investment that we can bring to bear, to see if we can protect our civil society in the kabul region, in particular, in the kandahar and the second cities, as well. >> jake auchincloss. ...

Will look like and does the u.s. have any leverage at all? >> well, afghan will look like islamic emirates. what they will do, they will create a very almost from our point of view medieval society out of this, or at least they will try to do that. the way things folded was a complete disaster from an intelligence standpoint. we did not anticipate exactly what would occur nor how quickly it would occur. some of us looked at this and said yeah, this government because of its corruption, because o...

To work with ngos to evacuate afghan allies. number three, it has to persist a counterterrorism capability in af afghanistan and turn that into over-the-horizon ape capability. and then, the country needs to use its leverage with the next government of afghanistan to try to secure hard-run games for a civil society and for the empowerment of women and girls in the capital region. >> you mentioned using our leverage to mitigate the situation as best we can. if i was a taliban fighter right now, i...

Television — yesterday president gary came on television and said his first reality— television and said his first reality was to re—mobilise the security— reality was to re—mobilise the security forces. but how much political — security forces. but how much political leverage and kind of power he has _ political leverage and kind of power he has at _ political leverage and kind of power he has at the moment? taliban seems to be having _ he has at the moment? taliban seems to be havi...