is that dropping bombs is not enough. that s a tactic and a tactic, absent a strategy is just pointless effort being expended. if we look at the way china is using the one belt one road initiative to expand their reach into parts of latin america and africa and to other parts of asia, that has been tremendously effective by leveraging economic and trade might. and that s an area where the u.s. has really been lacking. when we prioritize hard power, soft power falls by the wayside. that s really where we have tremendous ability to catch up to what china has been doing and surpass them. the bbc reports the taliban have banned showing women in tv dramas in afghanistan. they re now requiring female journalists in afghanistan to wear headscarves. do you feel as though all of the american effort, particularly, by the way, during the bush administration which really made it a priority, to embolden women, to get them roles in the
13 men and women died? it was the taliban. so they were trusting the taliban. now they re saying they re nod good actors? who do you think for 20 years was attacking guys like joey jones? they changed their tone because they knew it. now they have ended their operation. the thing is they think we re stupid. say one thing one week and something the other week and think we ll forget. no, let s roll the tape and go how can you have changing stories when the taliban hasn t changed more than 20 years? i agree. we should be dropping bombs. andy mccarthy prosecuted in in the terrorists in the first bombing. he told me the taliban has never been anything but the taliban. he described the nation state, the emirate that they set up and how it s different than anything that looks like a representative government. general milley said that they are ruthless. whether they change remains to
13 men and women died? it was the taliban. so they were trusting the taliban. now they re saying they re nod good actors? who do you think for 20 years was attacking guys like joey jones? they changed their tone because they knew it. now they have ended their operation. the thing is they think we re stupid. say one thing one week and something the other week and think we ll forget. no, let s roll the tape and go how can you have changing stories when the taliban hasn t changed more than 20 years? i agree. we should be dropping bombs. andy mccarthy prosecuted in in the terrorists in the first bombing. he told me the taliban has never been anything but the taliban. he described the nation state, the emirate that they set up and how it s different than anything that looks like a representative government. general milley said that they are ruthless. whether they change remains to
taliban in all probability coming from the network that knows kabul extremely well. had conducted terrorist attacks in the past. they have a uniformed elite that s very, very highly trained that we have seen in social media now actually walking into the airport, walking up to abandoned american helicopters and so on. so it is an absolutely extraordinary moment. i flash back to the battle for b bora bora when the united states was dropping bombs. they were relatively small numbers of american special forces and northern alliance were able to drive al-qaeda out and taple the taliban in relatively short order. 20 years later, they re now talking to them face to face. there has been radio contact during what effectively is an american withdrawal from that country and the taliban are back in charge. but as klarissa said, this is where the hard work begins.
strike by isis-k or other jihadists for that matter. like we spoke about earlier had they re also having to rely on the taliban, an enemy of 20 years, that they ve been fighting, they ve been dropping bombs on less than a month ago, to provide security from them against isis. but that s the situation on the ground now. it s going to be a very precarious 48 hours until tuesday until everybody is out of there. yeah. i mean, ali let s talk about that. that deadline is august 31st, tuesday, to fully withdrawal here. what do we know about how many people we still have left, and whether any evacuations could still take place after tuesday? well, the u.s. has basically withdrawn now. the troop numbers are down from 4,000 to 5,000, from 5,800, down to 4,000 in the last few weeks. they re destroying any surplus equipment they have to open up space on the planes, but you