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Fear for their own safety. the list is now including thousands of afghan interpreter and including those working for u.s. contract programs, and u.s. media, and governmental programs and it extends to the spouses and children, and a few hundred afghan interpreters and families are already here, and they arrived at fort lee in early afghanistan. the fear is real with the taliban targeting major cities and exacting revenge on the suspected enemies. we bring in courtney cubii and host of the nightline podcast matt zeller. he is embedded combat adviser with the afghan forces. he is also author of ...

Tonight. do resource levels need to change, too? >> resources have to go along with what your goals are. if there's a disconnect there, your strategy will fail. it's been reported that they might add 4,000 troops, bringing us up to around 13,000. it's unclear what 13,000 troops could accomplish in afghanistan that 100,000 could not accomplish several years ago under president obama. >> phillip carter, really appreciate your time tonight. your experience as a combat adviser and now serving as a senior fellow for new american security, appreciate it. >> thank you. joining us now is my friend c...

But we should be paying almost no attention to lavrov and his cohorts again. >> michael says the intelligence was solid. that was a chemical weapons attack. russians are saying it's not solid. that was not a chemical weapons attack. and this strike was unjustified. >> i think michael is spot on. i spent my life as a combat adviser. and the fact that that base is covered up with russian combat advisers and for them to say, you know, that they were unaware of it or it wasn't a strike is patently ridiculous. there's just absolutely no way that they couldn't have known that. so i agree with michae...

We still have tens of thousands of troops based in europe and korea. are those troops that are going to be in afghanistan going to be fighting the type of very violent war that i saw when i was there or are they going to be doing more training missions. to that point the training mandate you fought closely with the afghans. you were the combat adviser. what are the biggest hurdles to them being able to operate successfully on their own? >> i'm sort of skeptical of this rational. we just need to give them more time to get trained. we've been training afghans for a long time. to me it's more of ...

For several months pakistan blocked the border crossing after u.s. killed several pakistani joerlds. hillary clinton apologized publicly for tuesday and that ended the standoff. the roads in and out of afghanistan will be critical as the u.s. remove a decade's worth of equipment and 90,000 troops in the country. a soldier saw us collapse there and every week we spend there we're losing not winning. in the guest spot today we've got army reserve captain matt zeller who for eight months in 2008 served in western afghanistan as a combat adviser and in his book "watching without time: an america...