CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera August 26, 2021 17:35:00
Requires the cooperation of the taliban? >> yeah. this is where american leverage is going to be crucial. we only have a few lines of leverage left, frankly, that we can use with the taliban if we're not willing to use physical violence to expand perimeters and you've gone into why that would be difficult and cost so many more american lives to do that. we have leverage with the taliban because they do want some international -- they want international aid coming in. about 80% of the budget was foreign assistance. as that assistance disappears, the taliban would like to have some of that forei...
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