recognition before. there points of leverage and enormous amount of the afghan state budget in recent years come from international aid and aid from the united states and others. that s one obvious pressure point even with the u.s. military gone from afghanistan. but it seems to me that the lesson learned may not be the one that people in washington want it to be, but can be that we wait it out a super power and we re back in control, and all those triumphant claims of having defeated us, look who s going to be here on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in control of kabul, the very people who hosted al qaeda back 20 years ago and began the war as a result of it. so, you know, i m just very skeptical. some experts with whom i ve spoken point out that it might not be the same taliban, it might be worse because they re now a fighting force that is technologically abled by not only the weapons left behind by
security. who have so far not publicly necessarily conducted revenge attacks many were concerned about inside of kabul. it may have been happening outside of the public view on a larger scale. so the taliban presenting a sort of more acceptable face in the international community. the critics suggesting it s purely a short term measure to get the airport running, a degree of international recognition or diplomatic channels existing with them because they need international aid and their bank accounts assessable around the world. this strong statement clearly a way of the international community banding together and saying to the taliban these are the things we want from you, if do you are going to get the things out of us we want. and the key thing the u.s. wants is get those remaining personnel and citizens it has inside kabul, afghanistan out and possibly to be able to continue to evacuate sib applicants after that airport is essentially handed over to the taliban on
street, more destruction. in some parts of louisiana, water was the culprit here. it was wind as hurricane ida descendsed upon houma. it tore sections apart. now emergency crews are out and scanning the area trying to assess the damage. it s very here houma took a beating. our thanks to jason for that report. . now back to afghanistan. right now, in kabul, these hours are very tense. the u.s. military trying to pack up the final evacuation flights before america s withdrawal deadline expires. that s why we created low cash mode,
there s no assessment that any group in afghanistan can attack the united states. taliban, isis-k, al qaeda. that s the view of the administration. is that widely held outside of the administration as well? one of the lines you need to hear is you take the fight over there so it doesn t come over here. what is clear and we heard jen say it there is that the biden administration is keen to show that they can strike against those terrorists and terrorist groups inside afghanistan even after they leave. we have seen the two drone strikes that targeted both inside kabul and outside isis-k killing a number of their fighters, planners, facilitators to use the word of the u.s. military.
that the white house relented. and the media were permitted to film this dignified ceremony that occurs, unfortunately, all too often. we thought we were finished with all of this. but the extreme danger in which our forces currently in afghanistan are in gives us pause. the white house itself has said there are going to be more attacks or certainly attempts at attacks. and we had a retaliatory strike yesterday and a preemptive strike today inside kabul. anything is possible in these difficult times. and as the size of our force gets smaller there in kabul, it becomes increasingly difficult