this according to the u.n. s world food program. this as the country faces a cash shortage with prices for every day goods skyrocketing and banks putting limits on money withdrawals. joining me from qatar, richard engel and raf sanchez. richard, the kabul airport, is it fully back up and running now? is it at capacity? what does this mean to get the remaining americans and other foreign nationals out? it is absolutely not up and running. it is better than it was before. but back when there was a government in afghanistan, that wasn t run by the taliban. there was a u.s. and internationally backed government, kabul airport operated with international flights. not to many destinations. you could get to several locations in middle east. you could fly to europe as well. then taliban collapsed.
with our diplomacy. the military mission is over, a new diplomatic mission has begun. it was an incredible logistical effort to evacuate more than 123,000 civilians over the past month. but of course it came at a cost. scores of civilian deaths and 13 more us military lives lost, adding to the more than 2300 americans already killed in afghanistan and heaping more pressure on president biden. for a country renowned for honouring its servicemen and women, what looks to many inescapably like a defeat has been a huge blow, and military veterans have been especially vocal about their dismay. i think it was a waste of. a waste of time over there, because it wasn t run properly, i don t think. $2 trillion spent over there, and nothing has changed, it seems like. the taliban is back in, they were
but of course it came at a cost. scores of civilian deaths and 13 more us military lives lost, adding to the more than 2300 americans already killed in afghanistan and heaping more pressure on president biden. for a country renowned for honouring its servicemen and women, what looks to many inescapably like a defeat has been a huge blow, and military veterans have been especially vocal about their dismay. i think it was a waste of. a waste of time over there, because it wasn t run properly, i don t think. $2 trillion spent over there, and nothing has changed, it seems like. the taliban is back in, and they were just waiting for us to leave. i love this country. it ll be. it ll come back, but it s not in a good place right- now, that s for sure.
they ve left behind? daniel s sacrifice among 456 others, families as well that are feeling so hurt that the sacrifice is it for nothing, or do i try and take comfort that he s brought dreams to people that could never dream at one point? people say did you feel anything, a click or anything like that? i didn t feel anything. the next thing i was aware of, i was laid on the floor on my back. in 2009, andy reid stepped on an improvised explosive device on patrol in afghanistan. he refuses to blame or question his service. everything we did out there was worth it, 100%. we were changing lives on a daily basis. every time we went out of camp we were putting ourselves at risk but we were changing kids lives, changing adults lives, women s lives, young girls lives.
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