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At an incredible speed here. we started the day talking about the fall of a city hundred miles south which is strategically important and now, just within a span of 12 hours, we are looking at cities which are even more significant. herat in the west is close to the border and is an important economic and trade centre that this country and officials telling us it has fallen to the taliban. over the past few days, there was intense fighting between government forces and the taliban but it appears now that the government has not been able to hold control in that city and things are not looking good for it in kandahar as well, the second largest city. there is an intense battle raging there but increasingly we are hearing reports that the city has been overrun. then there is the capital of helmand province, about 100 miles from kandahar. there is a fierce battle going on there as well. the taliban have taken over important government buildings. ....
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That knows afghanistan well. ashleyjackson is a researcher at the global affairs thinktank odi who has carried out extensive resarch on civilians living under taliban control in afghanistan, herat and potentially kandahar there is a sense in washington of having to react to the situation thatis having to react to the situation that is changing extremely fast. yes. what you are hearing her and by the way he really dodged the question about what was happening and where the embassy was going to be and i think there will be continued speculation and pressure on the us government on these questions of are they going to stay and in what form? i don t think the ministration thought events would unfold this quickly presumably with regard to the larger cities and now potentially kandahar following. and that i think has really caught a lot of people off guard, but there were national security estimates months ago telling us that this is what was ....
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 ....
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