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Transcripts for MSNBC The Beat With Ari Melber 20210816 22:43:00

painful because we have had several million troops serve in iraq and afghanistan. we have had 60,000 u.s. killed and wounded. a lot of them are invested in what they were prepared to sacrifice their life for. but, look, if you back off it, in the last year, the disaster of the growing control of the taliban over the rural countryside half of it, then two thirds of the country. then the cities, in large part, the afghan security forces were not defeated in battle. they went over to the other side. or they walked away from their uniforms, handed their gun to the taliban. these were negotiated outcomes at most of these district capitals. they had ten taliban taking the surrender of significant ana and police forces. so unfortunately, we had a better message from the taliban than the corrupt and incompetent

Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20210809 11:24:00

half of the 400 districts in afghanistan have seen taliban sweep to leadership and control. what does that mean in the streets? it means radio stations are shutdown, any radio station that plays music is forbidden to do so. any women s voices on radio are banned in most of these district capitals. it means people are frightened and fleeing across border to the north, to the south. it means there is a sense of fear beginning to be panic in many of these afghan cities. the united states has, for so long, been seen as the backstop of the afghan military that the military simply hasn t been able to push the taliban back. they re stretched across this vast country. i m going to read you something, mika, which i think gives a sense of what it feels like in

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