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Feelings? do you go as far as saying to yourself, what did we do this for? as a result of now seeing the taliban taking over. what are your thoughts? >> yes. you would like to say, i wish i could go back and change things and things would be so much different if i could have a little bit more say or action on the ground or whatever the case may be. but ultimately, when i look back at my experience, its not about whats happening today, its what i did while i was there. and ultimately, i provided ...

Asked if any of these girls would be going to school and i was told, absolutely not. girls dont go to school. and when i said why dont girls go to school? they said taliban says its bad. >> reporter: here, what the taliban says goes. this is now what afghanistans future looks like. far from what the u.s. once envisioned and what so many afghans dreamed of. as the taliban pushes on towards an all but certain victory. clarissa ward, cnn, gazni province, afghanistan. >> reaction from some veterans ...

Profile so you can continue to live and breathe . i havent heard a vet that said lets keep staying in afghanistan, but its the why. why now? why this way and why are we abandoning these people? >> and then, dan, what are your concerns or worries about the afghan allies that, you know, tom was talking about? we heard our kim dozier earlier who has covered the u.s. wars in afghanistan and iraq extensively that said many of the after began military that essentially abandoned ship wasnt necessarily ...