Alliances both inside and outside The country . Well, my guest is omar zakhilwal, former afghan Finance Minister and recent interlocutor with The taliban. Does The future belong to The pragmatists or The zealots in afghanistan . Omar zakhilwal in kabul, welcome to hardtalk. Pleasure. You made a remarkable decision just a couple of weeks ago as thousands and thousands of afghans were trying to flee The country as The taliban fighters swept into kabul. You decided to head back from safety in The united states. Why did you do that . Well, my country faced a sudden, unexpected, deep uncertainty. There were fears, as we saw at kabul airport, people even hanging to The planes to just escape. And ijust Couldnt Bear to see that, i needed to return. First of all, be with our people, calm Them down, but secondly, wanted to engage with The taliban. They needed to assure The people that They should not be feared, The future should not look as bleak as people think, and that The taliban, No Doubt,
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Hundreds more leaving daily. Could make it difficult to get people that are trapped outside of the Kabul Air And wanted american help. What is interesting to know And why were going to go to this pentagon briefing, in each And every cases of these rescues outside the perimeter, the taliban has done nothing to disrupt the efforts or to interfere at all. Thats raising concerns at the same time hope that there could be more of these missions to get more americans out. Before i go to John Kirby, another development that you heard in the last hour, this notion that we might have all of 4500 americans left there. Thats hard to quantify And seems like a guess. But if that is correct, it does sort of dispute the other numbers that weve seen. Furthermore, records that theres 1,500 that might remain And many that might not want to go well explore that in more detail And try to understAnd how that could possibly be. Meantime, lets go to the briefing. Well make the right plans to do that. By And l
Whats that one guy doing with the leg cellular machines. Using his arms. Is that contra . What you are watching here is a colossal embarrassment. A Rout Over which we can and should continue to kick the biden administration over woke Military Leadership in their gender fluid groin. But we alSo have to move on and ask questions that are important to americas future. Wait. Just one more necessary Gut Punch of incompetence before we move on. One more bit of incompetence to indulge. Did you know that State Departments sent a note to the more than 5,000 americans currently stranded in afghanistan and desperate to leave that reads as follows and undefined number of u. S. Government provided will begin Soon please make yourself to harmid karzai airport. The united States Government cannot guarantee your safety as you make this trip. Basically the message is leave at your own risk. There you go. The Biden Strategy all summed up perfectly in a net shell. We can dwell on all the things that went