all day we had heard the american war planes circling above the city, flying low, as we thought the last american fights were taking off, providing extra cover in these last decisive hours. but it s now the 315t august in afghanistan, the day that presidentjoe biden said the american military mission, the 20 year engagement by us led nato forces would formally end and this is what you are hearing now the eruption of of celebratory gunfire by taliban supporters in the city of kabul. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is in kabul. secunder, what is the atmosphere like this morning? well that gun fire lasted until the early hours of morning. today, well,
pentagon is incapable of advancing us interests in the middle east. we give generals every chance, the american people has spent $6.5 trillion on the war on terror with little to show for it. american soldiers, reservists and special ops all were asked to do three, four, five tours of duty. there was enormous sacrifice and suffering with huge financial cost to the american taxpayer and in the end the taliban is left in charge controlling more territory and now with bragging rights, celebratory gunfire, laughing on camera, they defeated what used to be regarded as the most powerful military in the world. americans deserve an accounting of the mistakes that were made from bush to biden. trump was the only president who wanted to end the war in a manner that couldn t be an embarrassing disaster but never
withdrawal from afghanistan and the end of the military mission. reporter: 123,000 people flown out of the now taliban-controlled country. the taliban firing barrages of celebratory gunfire after the last aircraft departed, but not all americans were able to get out. the citizens that were not brought out number in the low, very low hundreds. though i believe that we re going to be able to get those people out. reporter: it s been two decades of military deployment. 2,461 americans killed 1,144 nato allies killed more than 48,000 afghans killed 300,000 afghan soldiers trained, only to collapse when confronted about a trillion dollars spent and more to come to care for the wounded, afghanistan handed back to the very same islamic fundamentalists the united states drove from power just weeks
0 my lifetime in american president with lead fellow americans behind enemy terroris laura: i am okay but we will pick up where you left off, there is a lot to cover. this is the ingraham angle, the biden administration s mix of incompetence and outright arrogance is laid bare. we will document all of that beginning with building back weaker, that is the focus of tonight s angle. of all the heart wrenching photos i ve seen the last few weeks this one hit me right in the gut, troops paying tribute to their brothers and sisters who died last thursday knowing it could have been one of them and the somber seen at dover during the dignified transfer, when it is in carried out thousands of times in the last 20 years of combat in afghanistan and iraq, parents, wives, husbands, children lining up, for many the grief was too much to bear. each life lost of the 13 at all of the others, all of them, every single one matters. they were all tethered together in a strong patriotic spirit of sacrif
and i m also extremely concerned knowing many of my colleagues in the military fought for afghanistan and especially the women of afghanistan. my concern is about the future of that country and especially about about the bev si of afghan women who knew a new life for 20 years and now will have to revert to the old life. all of those things are part of my consideration as i look back over what s happened over the last 20 years. let me get your thoughts on this. we just got some video in, celebratory gunfire video. you can see it right there. the taliban really excited. they re pleased. you see them shooting into the air. the taliban press spokesperson just issued a statement on twitter saying tonight at 12:00 midnight afghanistan time, the last american troops withdrew from kabul airport and our country gained full independence. all praise and strength are due