country. griff, thanks. ashley: republican congressman s byron don aldz dos plans to call on facebook to testify. the president of the united states has forgotten what the first amendment stands for. it means the government, no elected official, whether the president or myself, has the ability to abridge speech. you can t put pressure on private companies to have them do your bidding for you. it s outrageous. they need to answer about this one. ashley: he wants to hear what ability they have in their decisions. todd: a key ally is concerned about volatility in afghanistan growing. a retired general is slamming joe biden s hasty troop pullout from afghanistan. the situation on the ground has become increasingly dire with each passing week. todd: president biden has given a deadline of august 31st for
this negotiation which started here in doha. it hasn t come to a state that would help the country not go into chaos. taliban are the reality of the country. yes, it was a mistake that they were not part of the conference and yes, we will have to live together. but not like that. not push the country into a civil war. i think if we don t have to a political understanding at the negotiation table, it is very tick difficult to avoid a very bitter civil war. the u.s. president who launched the war in afghanistan predicts the u.s. troop pullout will have dire consequences for afghan women and girls. george w. bush sent american forces into afghanistan after the september 11th terror attacks. a reporter for the german news
deep. david rohde, welcome. thank you for having me. i want to hear your reaction to the way this troop pullout is going. you were kidnapped by the taliban in 2008, forced to hike from afghanistan to pakistan and then held for more than seven months. i can only imagine what all of this means to you. well, it s understandable the exhaustion of americans, and i understand why president biden wants to pull out u.s. forces, but one of the reasons that the u.s. has struggled so much is the fact that pakistan has allowed the taliban to have a safe haven, and that s where i was held captive for seven months. when you have these big surges of american troops, the taliban would simply withdraw over the border into the mountains of afghanistan where i was held captive. there have been mistakes by the afghan government, there s been corruption that s a problem, but the second biggest factor is
Graveyard of empires (2) By Alex Gratzek
Now that U.S. President Joe Biden is approaching Afghanistan with a policy based on realism, namely to never get involved in a land war in Asia, it s important that he keep his wits about him and not fall prey to emotions and the fallacy of sunken costs.
After 20 years of war, America is tired and in need of domestic reforms ― Osama bin Laden was not a dumb man. He recognized that any strike on America would cause it to lash out in anger and that s what we did.
He baited an America high on the hubris of winning the Cold War into entering into a conflict in which its technological prowess would be negated, in a mountainous land awash in guns, the only thing that could put an end to local infighting was an outsider.
20 years of war in Afghanistan
The United States and NATO officially start to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. The military mission began in 2001, aiming at removing the Taliban. But in all these years, international and Afghan forces have been unable to defeat them.
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