with the 13 fallen service members. that they killed. and so many others injured. more than 100, we don t even know, 200 afghans who died in that terrible assault. and the suicide bomb. but they also had the rpgs, five that were aimed at the kabul airport today. that was repelled by american equipment. that equipment, i would say the attack on the airport in kabul, was the opening of the civil war. and there are resistance groups against the taliban in some of the outline provinces, under the some of the war lords that have not been part of the taliban, tell a bit loyal group. but the other group, is isis-k. and they are now going to be going after the taliban.
taliban to battle them. and al qaeda for that matter. as things stand right now, in that io you have the taliban, al qaeda, the haqqani network war lords, tribal and ethnic rivalries. what might afghanistan look like in i say two years potentially? it is a real danger stew. for the regional powers there, congratulations. you forced the united states out of the region. but be careful what you wish for because now you ve inherited a region that has a failing state right in the center of it and there could be refugee flows, could be terrorist attacks emanating from afghanistan although i think the taliban will probably try to tamp those down. it is going to be a very unsettled area of the world for squiet sometime to come. thank you so much.
they too claim they can exert control of the country and do know a thing or two about planes and jets. let s go to rob o neill, the man that shot osama bin laden, retired navy seal. this back and forth on who controls the airport is more than an academic debate. if you re the taliban, you want to make sure that you re calling the shots there, right? they ve been planning what to do when we withdraw in pakistan for, you know,20 years right now. this taliban/isis-k/hakani, they use this against us. when they do some b.s. negotiations, they being the tall can and isis-k comes in, the taliban can say oh, that wasn t us. that was isis. it s all the same dudes. they re waving different flags. they re warriors and war lords
afghanistan is different than the taliban s? what is the conflict between the two? i mean, is it religious or is it, you know, mafia groups wanting power? there s a little bit of both because obviously afghanistan is sort of land of war lords and they have been fighting over various things for centuries, but incredibly isis khorasan thinks the taliban is too moderate. for example, the cooperation that s taking place at the airport is just more proof that the taliban is too modern, it s working with the west. we don t trust these guys, and so they re wanting to impose an even stricter version, a more extreme version of sharia and islamic land. that s what they contend they want to do. what are their capabilities, earlier the general was saying they have moved to rural areas into cities in mainly kabul.
and this quick news cycle we ll forget about it. no one has cell phones, we don t know what is going on and who is getting beheaded. we ll forget about it by the next mid-terms. neil: i m curious, if you don t mind i m hooked with the isis-k thing. forgive me. i do remember when the taliban took over and one of the first people that they shot and killed was this presumably isis-k leader. there were similar such incidents around afghanistan. all right. they re not close buds or friends. are you saying now that they will be so because as much as they dislike and compete with each other, they really hate us? that s what bonds them? well, they need us out of there. that s what bonds them. they have a similar ideology. you have to figure this happened in the early 90s when the russians left and you have seven war lords trying to fight over