Of your kohler walk-in bath. financing is available for qualified purchasers. president biden meeting with his calf in national security team on cybersecurity. we will see if he has anything to say on afghanistan. our guests have got plenty to say on it where general jack keane, martha maccallum, and
That. speedier, you were in the bush white house in the iraq war, biden reportedly was instrumental in those disastrou decisions that led to the destabilization of iraq. i want to add one point to what morgan said, don t forget president trump also dropped th largest bomb in other than a nuclear bomb on on the taliban. it is true. joe biden oversaw the withdrawa of troops in afghanistan in learn the lessons. this is the group that they called jv instead they were deadly killers, and thank goodness donald trump was successful in taking them mostl out of the middle east. robert gates, former secretary in that clip you played put his finger on the core issue when h said biden has some issues with the military, biden advised barack obama that the military was trying to jam him on
For them to grow in sell. one of the things though that w were trying to do again, we hav talked about this is we tried t bring the taliban to the table with the government of afghanistan and say look, there can be many other economic projects and a joint divided government. obviously we handed over the handover to the biden ministration in that didn t work . while the poppy trade is lucrative from them, there are actually things that china and russia are much more interested in afghanistan, and that is rare-earth in minerals very china has been involved in thes mines because of the security situation, they haven t been able to extract the type of value that many people around the world think are in those minds, but this is one of the things you should watch for is due the chinese now that they recognize the taliban, are they able to make significant improvements in those mines. this second thing to watch for, we ever estimate the government of a chemist in has about $9 million reserve
Don t let go until the question stop. that would be a great moment. it might turn some of those polls around but more importantly maybe we would get some truths. you mentioned the afghans falling from the plane, we ve learned that one of them was an afghan that fell to his death was a member of the afghanistan national youth soccer team. his nickname windshield because the ball couldn t get by him. tragedies upon tragedies are heartbreaking in as a wall street journal editorial board rights, president biden might forget the last two weeks, but america will not. he is now facing pushback for his handling of afghanistan, bu some critics are not surprised by his response coming up, a look at his disastrous foreign policy track record. stay with us.
All joining us. i m john roberts joined sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for america reports. we will see you then. the taliban is the world s largest opiate supplier in as the u.s. shifts out of afghanistan for good, the drug trade is expected to once again be the taliban s go to source o income. the united nations estimates that the money generated annually will between $300,000,001.6 billion, most of which comes from drugs. according to one report, the united states unsuccessfully focused on dismantling the taliban drug empire with airstrikes and rates, testing the u.s. more than $8 billion over 15 years. morgan, your thoughts on this? to get the taliban does make a lot of money off of the drug trade of poppy because it s eas for them and that s one of the reasons we were unsuccessful many times in our narcotics efforts because it s a crop eas