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Regional neighbors not pakistan, india, russia, china want to see. the forcible armed takeover of the capital by taliban is something that nobody has an interest in seeing. so it s conceivable that there will be an 11th hour intervention to bring some kind of cease-fire, stalemate, and then negotiate the final exit of the current government in some fashion. but for the moment i think what we re seeing is preparation by the pentagon for what they fear might be the battle for kabul. speaking of the battle for kabul, madam ambassador, i think an a lot of team in this country are watching this and say, why aren t afghans who are rejecting and refusing the taliban rule their country not fighting more? why is the military not fighting for? how would you explain that? you know the government well you know the afghan forces. in some cases they are putting up a fight buck overwhelm in the ....
Pathetic. you covered this extensively. was this withdrawal chaotic? what should president biden have done differently? the withdrawal certainly is chaotic. as the ambassador just said, the situation is dire. i can only assume we re moving these forces in rapidly because of the fear that the battle of kabul is next. the taliban have advanced to quickly in the last week, sweeping the north. today capturing ghazni, the gateway to the south. capturing herat, the gateway from the west of kabul, so next up is the battle for kabul itself. i think it s difficult for republicans to fairly criticize president biden for the fundamental decision he made to withdraw u.s. troops. that was initiated by his ....
Predecessor president trump. it is fair to question whether reasonable planning was made when he made his announcement in april that he intended to withdraw troops by september. whether the right set of plans was put in place to make for a secure and stable transition as possible. what we re seeing is just an accelerating deterioration of a situation for afghan troops. i can only assume that today s news will produce increasing fear, perhaps panic among afghan civilians who are desperate to get out, fear the future. i think republicans, democrats, everybody s going to be concerned about this very chaotic and i fear dangerous end game in afghanistan. one final thing i d say this imminent battle for kabul is not something that any of the ....