CNN At This Hour With Kate Bolduan September 14, 2021 15:55:00
Without the afghan military or a functioning government, would that have been enough to retake kabul to be able to secure the passage to everybody at the airport? >> i don't want to profresz to be a military expert. i can i say think safely it would have taken a substantial number of forces to try to retake the city or establish a much broader perimeter, and, of course, if that was ultimately opposed by the taliban, in a sense, it would have defeated the purpose. anyone outside that perimeter would not have been allowed to get through it to come to the airport. among other things. >> right. on...