can see other comments by general mark milley just last month in july. he stood up and said that the afghans have the capacity to fight and defend their nation. within weeks, kabul had been overrun. obviously, he had grossly misjudged the status of the taliban insurgency. trace: this is a new york post editorial board, and they say, afghanistan will go down as a failure of similar to vietnam. where it differs in the legacy, we do not yet know the new threats, what new 9/11s will be planted there. the world is less safe today. president biden, that is on you. is not a fair assessment? it s fair. it is on the multiple leaders. the attic could reconstitute or surge in afghanistan. i want your viewers to know that is just false. we have been tracking that
help us understand just how surprised is the pentagon by how quickly this is happening? reporter: well, i don t know that the pentagon is that surprised so much as the white house is far more surprised. the pentagon has been warning for months now, for years, in fact, if we pulled out united states troops the country would descend into at least civil war and you would see a return of the warlordism and the taliban insurgency rule. that said, nobody at the pentagon expected that it would happen even before president biden s withdrawal of american troops deadline, which was supposed to be september 11th and now is august 31st. the white house in particular though i think has been quite shocked at how quickly this has happened because president biden got intelligence assessment from his intel community that he had been relying on back in march or april that said any collapse of the afghan government probably
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battle with commandos going room to room killing afghan soldiers who were patients and recuperating at the hospital. afghan commandos were able to ultimately kill all of the attackers i get the situation under control, but more than 50 people were also wounded in this attack. ed has a lot of concern being raised in the afghan capital. this adding to the taliban insurgency has many, many people scared there. heather: conor powell come alive for us. thank you. jon: you next hour of the happening now, firefighters in the midwest looking for a break after deadly wildfires across four states. high winds are fanning those flames, will mother nature cooperate? we are also standing by for the daily white house briefing with press secretary sean spicer as lawmakers on the hill debate that re-placement plan for obamacare
have usa today noting casualties, soared to 28% in 2015. this is soldiers and police there. fought revitalized taliban insurgency. this is while american troops supposed to be training the afghan forces. are we in it perpetually as a training institution for them? it looks that way. the president has already delayed the planned drawdown for the afghan war and last couple of weeks general campbell, the commander of the international forces in afghanistan say he may not request additional forces and part of the u.s. recognizing since they have withdrawn from full warfare to the training mission you discussed and counterterrorism, always said that counterterrorism special operations would be part of that, that since then things haven t gone as planned. the taliban coming back to take outposts, bases, cities so