to the world. that has always been the american way. yes, there are afghans who did come to our aid in afghanistan. they did help us fight the war against osama bin laden. yes, some, in fact, did fight for their country and died for their country. we can t leave them behind. the images out of afghanistan are hard to look at. there s no question about it. perhaps that s to be expected when you try to end what s been called the forever war. but if we want to end that forever war, if we really want to get home from afghanistan, i know one light showing us the way. and we ll be right back.
that has never been u.s. government policy. and leave it to tucker carlson, fox s ayatollah of paranoia to take it one step zbloofr if history is any guide, and it s always a guide, we will see many refugees from afghanistan resettle in our country in the coming months, probably in your neighborhood. over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. so first we invade and then we re invaded. or as another pro-trump propagandist put it, raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town. i can think of somebody raising her hand. anybody ever heard the line give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free? america has long and proud history of welcoming refugees from war-torn countries. the statue of liberty has always symbolized that beacon of hope
religion, and then the tactics that they use themselves, which is fighting in small groups to defeat large concentrated forces. the russians found this out, the british found it out again in the 1890s, and the united states has now found it out. but in 2002, it was pretty clear, i mean, we were after osama bin laden. we wanted him. we had him in tora bora. he slipped into pakistan. the pakistanis gave him a safe haven, but that wasn t the key indicator we were going to fail. the key indicator for me was when i returned a month later, all of my efforts were put into iraq, as early as february 2002. they had been planning what they called the next big push. you know, max, i want to in fact talk about iraq because in many ways, in this kind of two-pronged forever war, iraq was the obviously fraudulent one, as we discovered. and there was the afghanistan one was the one that started
tonight. i m in for alicia menendez. it s been called the forever war. and tonight, it s officially over. and here s the bitter truth. america lost. 20 years ago this fall, the united states launched a war to oust the taliban as leaders of afghanistan. today, in the final stretch of america s withdrawal, the taliban resumed power. raising the question of what the last 20 years were for. and what the future holds for a country awash in chaos and hardship, and in particular, women and girls there who tonight have been plunged back into rule by a regime dedicated to their subjugation. new video from al jazeera shows what the end of a fragily democratic government looks like. it reportedly shows the taliban inside the presidential palace in kabul, sitting in the chair that afghan president ashraf
what we have just seen over the last couple hours. remember, it was president biden just about a month and a little bit ago who predicted that the taliban would not be able to overtake the entirety of the country. obviously, a very different image playing out before our eyes today, anand. countries obviously make announcements when they win wars, and behave a little bit like what you re describing today when they lose them. is there any acknowledgment even in the private conversations you have with white house officials that sort of officially today, as of this takeover by the taliban, this is a lost war, the longest war in american history is a lost war? they re framing it more as this forever war that this president was very, very wanting to end. and that is really what they continue to cite, that candidate joe biden promised to bring troops home, that this was something where he had actual rare agreement with his predecessor on. of course, now, the current