for the americans to accelerate the movement of americans out is to have special forces, type operations, probably in cooperation with the taliban, covert operations, low profile, probably at night where they can shoot out and grab people, but that s only done with the cooperation of the taliban. that may be forthcoming. the taliban want to see this august 31st deadline met as much as the americans. yeah. sam, appreciate it. i want to bring in a former u.s. air force officer. she co-chairs the global politics and security program at georgetown university. i appreciate your time. your reaction? obviously as a veteran myself who served in afghanistan, i m devastated to hear what s happened. i remember the sounds of the
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with partners, collecting intelligence, calling in air strikes. can you do it from afar? not as well as you can do it the way it is now, no. i can t see the military logic there. look, the reason why those troops are in syria in that number and have been so effective is because isis is now a different beast than it was in 2014-2015. there s not as many of them. many of them have gone to ground. they re doing, conducting smaller type operations, and so having eyes on the ground allows you to better target them. this is what we call time-sensitive targeted, dynamic tarkts, small in number. moving around, so having boots on the ground to help you do that helps a lot in the targeting process. it also helps in advising and assisting of local indigenous forces, in this case, the kurds, to go after them. they re there for a reason and it has been working. now, now when they re down to 1% of their territory, is the moment to press that advantage. not to move the troops out of there. so i fai