Live Breaking News & Updates on Heened Combat Operations In Afghanistan

Robyn, that president obama, when he was in power, heened combat operations in afghanistan in 2014. so for the last six, seven years, you had a reduction in fatalities on coalition troops. the costs have come down. but they provided peace and stability to the country. and there was a stalemate with the taliban. the worry now is the taliban are back in power. you have got proscribed designated terrorists running the country, such as haqqani, who is on the fbi s most wanted list. he was also a close ally of al qaeda. and if, unfortunately it seems to be the case that they are not only defending al qaeda, but they potentially have been cooperating with them behind the scenes, then that means that you could see a return to extremism, and that will also then play a problem, not just for afghanistan, but impact on us. because you ll see foreign fighters going there for training and potentially plotting against the west in the future. history repeats itself. ....

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