massively bunkled in terms of how we got out of afghanistan. there was and there is wide agreement in the united states that we should leave afghanistan militarily, but we never were intending to leave diplomatically, we certainly did not intend to leave the way we are now, hastily, having to burn documents, fighting for the lives of americans and the afghans who helped them, not to mention all the internationals and other afghans that helped basically civil society, media outlets like yours. we re in a situation we didn t need to be in. the biden administration had already decided, may 1st, the deadline the trump administration agreed with afghanistan, wasn t going to cut it. they picked august 31st. they should have gone into the time of year when the taliban isn t fighting, during the winter. they also would have had more
administration, which basically said if you promise not to shoot at us and let us leave, you can settle your affairs with the ghani government. the only purpose is to get the americans out. no mass evacuation of the afghans who have worked with us us. they re going to have to flee into adjoining countries. unlike vietnam, they can t just take to the seas and get rescued by the u.s. navy. afghanistan is at the end of nowhere. wow. all right. to do that, the goal is to do it, as we just heard shannon say, with both speed and safety. thank you both for your time and your candor and expertise. to our viewers, our breaking news coverage continues right now. we re following the very latest development from the taliban s takeover. just after the break, members of
some of the more experienced and trained afghan, more conventional forces, they put up somewhat of a fight, they just weren t able to stop the taliban. in some places the taliban was able to move into the areas, completely uncontested and take over provincial capitals and entire provinces. that s been the real determining factor here. what we know that is good on right now, morgan, the u.s. military is moving troops into kabul as we speak. they are still plans to build up to at least 5,000 troops in that city with the mission of evacuating as many americans as they possibly can. these are americans who have worked at the u.s. embassy there in kabul, and to help with assen afghans as they possibly can who are eligible for the special immigrant visa process. the mission will continue, as
armed forces loyal to that person usually fall apart pretty quickly. they started falling apart before he left. now that he s gone, they ll probably be absolutely no resistance to the taliban taking over kabul and having full control of afghanistan and probably less than 72 hours. as we know, the afghan forces there just don t have the will to fight the taliban. the taliban are much more disciplined, they re willing to fight to the death. that s not something we have seen from the afghan troops there. so it s a very, very chaotic situation on the ground as the u.s. in a very frenzied last-minute effort try to get their personnel out, and then see what they can do about the afghans that have been working there and helping them through this two-decade-long process. their situation on the ground is also very, very dangerous. you know, if the taliban weed out people that have had any