planes in kabul and out of the country. the state department has maintained that any military force that takes over the country will not have legitimacy. yet china s government says it helps that taliban can now help build a inclusive political situation. russia s u.s. ambassador, and according to the state department, he has spoken to the top diplomats just a couple of hours ago from russia and china. back to you. sandra: live at the state department for us. trace: let s bring in thomas joscelyn, senior editor of long war journal. you say, thank you for joining us, that we thought there was no military solution in afghanistan, yet that taliban was fighting to win. can you expand on that force? yeah, it is the absurdity of this war, that we have operated under the assumption that kabul was going to reach a political
raised. the bottom line is if we can save these people, we ve got to change it. if we can contain the threat, if we tell the world don t legitimize this regime, i want president biden to tell pakistan and china that if you recognize the taliban, you re recognizing a terrorist organization was blood on their hands regarding americans, and we will hold you accountable. this is a time the president down my problem with president biden as he is like a deer in headlights. he is unable to adjust. the worst thing in a time of crisis is to have a commander in chief who cannot change their mind. as much criticism as you want to levy against president trump, he made the decision to withdraw and change his mind when he said what was going to happen. president trump would not have let this happen. if you do what you are talking about doing, you are going to have chaos on your hands.
we simply have to wait the americans out. well, now they have. the taliban controls afghanistan, and the question is how long before al qaeda reforms, regain strength, and our correspondent in the middle east made a very good point, saying this is a very significant 9/11. the 20th anniversary. and if you don t think that terrorists want to make some kind of optical show, you are sorely mistaken. you are right about that, trace. bear in mind the chinese communist party has already come out supporting the taliban. and saying they will recognize them. we know that china has been very much supportive of the taliban and what their efforts are. we wonder about the ties with iran and with russia. and of course, you are allowing a terrorist puppet to continue. and god blasts everyone who
all of the equipment we are leaving behind to iran, russia and china as soon as they can, and that goes to the bigger geopolitical picture, sandra. the taliban are friendly with iran, china, and russia. they are the winners today, and we are the losers. sandra: i m sure you heard joey jones saying we are sending 1,000 more troops in there right now to safeguard the airport amid the chaos. he just hopes that they know what their mission is and that they are able to do their jobs and that there is leadership for them. those are all really good points and concerns of the same time here at the national security advisor on the afghan fighters. i am sure you have also heard the question over why they did not stand up in a greater capacity. he tried to explain the decision and what has now happened like this. listen. he thought they could step up and fight because we spent 20 years, tens of billions of dollars training them, giving them the best equipment, giving them support of u.s. forc
how will we handle our allies in taiwan when china comes calling? sandra: the wall street journal this morning, talking about the afghanistan surrender. he tried to duck responsibility for a calamitous withdrawal. and it says that president biden s statement, washing his hands of afghanistan, deserves to go down as one of the most shameful and history by commander-in-chief at such a moment of american retreat. so while you may not be able to predict what he is about to say, do you believe that he will on this? no, i do not believe that he will own this defeat. we have already seen him try to off-load some of us onto the trump administration. i don t know that biden deserves, again, 100% of the condemnation. that doesn t mean he does not our military leaders have been focused, in many occasions, focusing on white ridge. they have a report out that says something like vaccine skeptics