fighters kidnapping girls and turning them into child brides. they will grab a young woman they like and wed her off against her will to one of the young soldiers. that s the taliban mentality. that s the mentality that s rising. they are better armed and have this boost of momentum and they have the bragging rights they can say they pushed out the united states. that will carry them very far. two months ago, two weeks ago, did you think it would go down this quickly? this would all happen as fast as it did? i did. i talked about this on air today. i don t know why so many in the u.s. didn t see this coming. i think there was so many horrible intelligence failures. one that they thought it was going the afghan government would hold.
becoming a nightmare for afghan women and girls. we re getting reports that the taliban is targeting them at alarming rates kidnapping and raping, taking girls as child brides they re being targeted for doing what the u.s. encouraged them to do for the last 20 years, get an education, find jobs, often in defiance of their fathers and village elders state department spokesman ned price told me today the answer is not to relocate everyone who faces danger, but as he was speaking, a colleague was getting desperate pleas, emails from girls begging to be saved from what they say is a humanitarian disaster lester andrea, thank you in just 60 seconds, what could be a game-changer for millions of americans trying to protect themselves against covid.
afghans, more women represented in various sectors, more women doctors. i have one woman doctor i was talking to yesterday. and she was telling me how her husband was killed by the taliban on monday, and her and her five girls are terrified. and they doesn t know what to do. and in your opinion with real reason to be terrified, this isn t unreasonable given what you have seen the taliban did to women and zblirls what they are doing right now in real time, going door to door and ripping girls away from their parents and making these girls into child brides. i mean, it s absolutely disgusting. and we have to do something. i mean, as america, you know, we went there with the idea of democracy and freedom and rights. and we have and they bought into that, which i think is good we promoted democracy. and now it looks as though we are abandoning them. we shouldn t be doing that. because this is our responsibility. if we lour the taliban to attack afghanistan that is really attacking amer
the field. you have, of course, all of the information at your disposal and there are reports from our own embassy that there have been beheadings, executions and the taliban going door to door, women are texting and calling colleagues of ours here in washington saying the situation is dire, that they re being targeted. girls are being taken hostage as, quote, child brides. we would call that kidnapping and rape. what is our moral obligation to the people of afghanistan? andrea, the reports that have emerged from afghanistan not only in the recent days and recent weeks are disturbing and we are gravely concerned by what we are hearing and we are doing everything in our power to try to put an end to this violence and give some semblance of hope,
saddening. we are reading in this story that children as young as 12 are being captured by the advancing taliban and used as child brides, that women who, in afghanistan during the period when the west were trying to liberate the country from afghanistan, are being captured by the taliban and given to their fighters as spoils of war, effectively as prostitutes. and i think we hear the story of a country falling under the spell of an evil regime, but the way the metro takes us into the human side of what is happening really captures the imagination and brings tears to your eyes, really, that people who have for 20 years been free of this evil regime are fearful that their whole country will fall under their control again. and i m afraid it