CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown August 15, 2021 23:15:00
With the planning process. when you have an intelligence expert who says it will take six to eight months before kabul falls, that tells me they were looking at a long term planning requirement when in fact as the momentum of the taliban increased, that became a very short-term requirement. and it became not able to do the evacuation they were talking about in the few days they have now. >> it seems there be an overestimating of the afghan forces and underestimating the taliban. this looks like a disaster. we're seeing the pictures at the airport. this hasn't been a popular war. what does this...