Lost, Americas War in afghanistan finally has an expiration date. It is time to end americas longest war. But what happens after the u. S. And nato troops pull out . After all of that blood and treezure, Will Afghanistan Return to taliban control . Will it become a Terrorist Haven once again . Ill have an exclusive interview with the president of afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani and then ill talk to two former national Security Advisers, Tom Donilon and h. R. Mcmaster. Ill also ask them about russia as the Military Drills and masses on its border with ukraine. Are they preparing for another invasion . Also, is myanmar the new syria . The u. N. Human Rights Chief said it may get justice as bad. Clarissa ward has logged many days in syria and is just back from myanmar. Shell describe what she saw in the closed off country. But first, here is my take. To governor is to choose a french Prime Minister once said and this Week President biden made a difficult strategic choice. He announced a timeline for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan. 20 years after they arrived there. For several years, the u. S. Has been unwilling to make a choice in afghanistan, settling into a policy that was more punt than a strategy. Biden should be commended for actually making a hard choice and not kicking the can down the road one more time. Was it the right choice . I believe so. Lets recall the United States has tried virtually every possible approach in afghanistan. Initially after 9 11, it went in with a light Foot Print allies with local forces and after a few years that strategy was flawed because it gave the taliban the opportunity to regroup. Under president obama, washington expanded Coalition Forces so the peak numbers around 130,000. They attempted a comprehensive Counter Insurgency Policy to provide safety and win the hearts and minds of the locals. But while the search produces gained, they proved temporary. As u. S. Forces withdrew, the taliban always bounced back. Then Donald Trump announced a mini surge of his own. Adding troops but claiming that american soldiers would only fight the enemy and do no nation building. Eventually he decided he had enough and withdrew some of those troops bringing them down to the current level of 3,500. To understand why the United States couldnt win, we should remember the Dikt Aim coined by Henry Kizinger describing the war in vietnam. The gorilla wins if he doesnt lose, the Conventional Army loses if it does not win. The question we dont ask enough is not why america failed, but why the taliban has succeeded. For the past 20 years, Facing The World most powerful army with the most advanced Weaponry And Intelligence in history, the Rag Tag Taliban has survived an often prevailed. We spend a lot of time condemning the taliban for their ideology and their treatment of women, we call them terrorists, but we dont seem to ask despite all of that why have they done so well. Meyer once said that gorillas could succeed only if they could move amongst the people as the fish swims in the sea. The taliban have managed to do that. Extol ors and ground have found that ethnic Identity And Solidarity is key to understanding taliban success. Far more important than Military Prowess or economic aid or even good government. Many people identify with the taliban. The kabul government is often associated with the outsider, with foreigners. In the book counter gore ill yu, there is a recounts of a Battle In which local afghans join the taliban even though they were not aligned with the group. They simply felt they had to join the Fight And Fight against the outsiders. And no matter how much money and services the United States may provide, it remains the outsider. There are other reasons for taliban successes. Well it is difficult to think of a single case in history in which an insurgency was defeated when it had a sanctuary across the border and the taliban has enjoyed a haven in Pakistan And Help from the countrys military and benefited from the massive corruption unleashed by the tens of billion dollars of american aid and Military Spending that has destroyed the afghan economy. The u. S. Weakened the kabul government by insisting that it fight Opium Production which for better or worse has been a staple agricultural product in provinces like helmand for centuries. Ultimately, it comes down to a simple reality. An outside force that has an ambitious set of Goals Establishing A Functioning Democracy and ending the Opium Trade and ensuring success for women and cannot succeed without a legitimate local partner. People will claim this that withdraw shows that the u. S. Did not have the capacity to stay the course and say that american troops should remain in afghanistan as they have in South Korea and germany. But those forces are stationed to determine a foreign invasion, not to hold the country together. American soldiers have stayed in afghanistan twice as long as the soviets stayed there and longer than the u. S. Did in vietnam. It is time for them to come home. Go cnn. Com fareed for a link to my Washington Post Column this week. And lets get started. Lets get right to my exclusive interview with the president afghanistan, ash rar ghani. Welcome back to the show, mr. President. It is a pleasure to be with you. When weve talked in the past, you have said you would support a positive peace in afghanistan but not what the taliban you said sometimes seems to want which is the peace of the grave. Which one of these is likely following president Bidens Announcement of a u. S. Withdrawal . The announcement has been a gamechanger. Because the unexpected for the region and for the taliban is happened, the announcement was not unexpected for me. We have been deliberating about this for two years. Now, it is time for recalculation. For us it is a time of opportunity, for taliban and for pakistan. It is a moment of choice. Will they opt to become a credible international stakeholder, with rules of game for a peaceful part of asia and connectivity, or for opting for chaos. Equally for taliban, the major excuse that this is a war to get the international forces out of afghanistan is over. There is no religious justification left for the war. Political settlement is a must. But the ball clearly is not court of taliban and their supporters. It sounds like, mr. President , you support the president s announcement or at least you think there could be a positive effect from that announcement . I respect the president s decision. Ive always made clear on your show particularly that i never discussed numbers or whether the United States should stay long. A strategic decision has been made, the implications of this, the operational level, the tactical level and restrategizing for the region and the national level is imperative. The context is radically changed. My style of working is that when context changes, my entire energy is focused on working in the new context and im focused on the opportunities and i think the opportunities are real. During the previous administration, during the Trump Administration, when they were trying to reach a deal with the taliban, it would often be leaked to members of the press that you were the obstacle, that you were unwilling to share power with the taliban. Was that true and has that changed . It wasnt true. Because i ran on a peace platform. I think it should be remembered that it was i who secured the first ceasefire in our history in 2018. The question was who was going to own and lead the Peace Process . What we proposed to the Trump Administration two years ago is that if you want to withdraw, deal with us, the legitimate government of afghanistan, not with the taliban on that issue. They made choices and because of that they needed a figure to blame things upon. I was never the obstacle, and again, in preparation for the Istanbul Conference i went to my nation and clearly indicated that i was willing to reduce my elected terms of office but my condition was that a democratic succession, where the people of afghanistan would decide on the the succession. For me, it is the principle, not power. Power is an instrument of service, not something personal. When you think about the taliban, going forward do you imagine a national unity government, do you imagine they are simply going to seek a Military Conquest of kabul . What is your sense of what where will the taliban go from this . Well, what i hope they will go for and what theyre likely to go for are likely to be different things. What id like to is for them to seek seize the new context where a true national political settlement is made, that integrates them within the government, within the society and within the economy and that we form a government of peace for a brief period culminating in an election that is internationally supervised and monitored and in order to make sure that the wounds of the past 42 years, particularly past 20 years, well need a discussion of a national compact and the preparation that, the Justification And Approval of any Peace Deal should take place in the historical institution where all walks of life are brought and it is imperative that the taliban sit with their afghan sisters and brothers if that is what they consider us. 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Of course, there is a risk. But the Women Of Afghanistan are very proud of now speak for themselves, organize for themselves and have nation and have turned into a nationwide movement. If the taliban wants to be stakeholders in the future, they need to recognize that Women Of Afghanistan aspire to the type of freedom that existed during the time of the Prophet Peace be upon him. Dont forget, the wife of the prophet, was one of the richest women on earth at that time. There is a culture of participation in commerce, in Learning And Literacy and others. So it is crucial that this Game End as long as i have the honor of serving afghanistan, every week, every day, you will see further steps for enhancing the role of the woman, in particularly the education of girls and their vocational abilities. The Women Of Afghanistan, they have children whom i see regularly on president ial grounds aspire to be President S. Theyre pilots, theyre ambassadors, theyre ministers, the horizon is open to them. This would be one of the greatest injustices in terms of Human Rights in history if we dont respect this and consolidate it. Let me ask you about the regional dynamic with u. S. Forces withdrawing. Reporting suggests that pakistan has never really stopped supporting the taliban, that the taliban during the negotiations in dough har, the taliban representatives flew back and forth from pakistan, not even bothering to pretend they were as they used to in the past. Is pakistan going to allow an independent neutral afghanistan or are they likely to interfere and is that interference likely to be solidified by a very strong which is support . Well, first of all, it is a moment of choice for pakistan. All its calculations have been wrong. Verbally the leaders of pakistan all fortunately acknowledge that they do not want the taliban government in afghanistan, that they would like to see a peaceful, stable, Democrat Government in afghanistan. We are key to their prosperity. The rate of Grand Owth in afghanistan could enhance by 2 in a stable and connected afghanistan, we have to work together. So there are two options. When, when, when. Connect to sent Central Asia to us, share in the joint Pr Prosperity through the partnership for Peace Gain international Capability And Support and theyre all in need of or opt for chaos, the country that would be most damaged by insecurity or a renewed civil War In Afghanistan is pakistan. And in that case, it would bea lose, lose, lose proposition. It seems to be clear that pakistan has chosen to ally with china in the emerging bipolar order. Has china decided that it will support pakistan, and would china support a taliban offensive of the kind you just described . No. China is going to have 16 estimated 16 rate of growth. China, i believe, is not an interventionist power. It does not want engage in military or proxy wars and pakistan in terms of its Foreign Policy is hedging between china and other countries, because it is still, it is reliance on the rest of the region is quite significant. Pakistan can become an anchor of regional stability if it opts for peace in regional cooperation. The discourse of pakistan has changed. There was a Security Conference in islamabad where the talk is really significantly about harmony and cooperation. So expect that china, after the great covid reset, and the significant adverse impact will get involved in regional conflicts directly, i think it is remote. Furthermore, we have a lot of positive relationship with china and the growth of china now is going to be the factor as growth of india for regional prosperity. All of us, i think, are strong stakeholders not to get involved in a War In Afghanistan, we do not want a replacement in terms of seeking to replace the United States and nato with some form of patronage, we want to have multi aligned policy where we are friends with everybody and not part of their quarrels, and hence our Doubt Ralt that will benefit everybody. Thank you President Ghani for that important conversation. For more of it go to cnn. Com will you will hear President Ghanis eloquent message to america and specifically to the americans who have served in afghanistan over the last two decades. Next on gps. Donald trumps national adviser h. R. Mcmaster and barack obamas national Security Adviser Tom Donilon who Disagree On Afghanistan and well also talk about russia and more. Rapid grass. It grows two times faster than seed alone for full, green grass. Everything else just seems. Slow. Its lawn season. Lets get to the yard. Open talenti and raise the jar. 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The allies worried about what moscow might be up to this time. U. S. Army retired lieutenant general h. R. Mcmaster joins me now. He was Donald Trumps second national Security Adviser and the author of battlegrounds, the fight to defend the free world. General, a pleasure to have you on. Let me start with afghanistan, and let me ask you youve been skeptical of the attempts to make peace with the afghanistan and when Donald Trump tried to do it after you left as a munich style appeasement. What do you think about president bidens plan for withdrawal. Well i think it is an utter disaster and i think what is worth pointing out is that were engaged in an extraordinary degree of Self Dissolution what i call strategic Nas Isism and assume that what we do is decisive toward achieving a favorable outcome. And this Self Delusion include this is idea that taliban wants to share power. The taliban is determined to reimpeas the Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan and we know the hell that would be because they did it because 1996 and 2001. The second element of Self Delusion is there is a bold line between the taliban and other terrorists organizations. The taliban operates in an area that is a terrorist Echo System that spans the afghanistan and pakistan border which makes it the geostrategic and ideology centers against the fight against jihadist terrorists and finally the idea that if the narcissistic idea, that the americans arent here, lets stop fighting. It is worth pointing out, fareed, that weve lost no soldiers over the last 12 months. The afghans have lost over 4,000 of courageous soldiers and police men trying to protect the freedoms theyve enjoyed since 2001. I think that should count for something and what is astounding and a moral travesty and strategic failure is that were throwing them under the bus on the way out. We made concession after concession. We didnt insist on a ceasefire. We forced the afghan government to release 5,000 of some of the most heinous people on earth and we keep talking about, well what more could the afghan government do for peace . How about Hieba Tolla and who has stepped up Mass Murder attacks across the country. What about the Talibans Role in effecting peace. It is an extraordinary reversal of morality, what is were watching. And i think we saw it in the president s speech frankly, fareed, i think i saw it in your opening as well. And when we know already that in areas where the taliban has been able to regain control, that theyre closing Girls Schools and flogging women publicly and how long before they have mass executions in the Soccer Stadium again. It is a travesty that well look back on with shame. Let me ask you, general, i asked President Ghani whether he thought the taliban could take control of the country, this is in the web extra part of the interview. But his response i can summarize was no, the Afghan National Army has been fighting 95 of the battle for the last few years, where we have a lot of support in the country, the taliban is not that popular and most importantly unlike south vietnam, the u. S. And nato are not saying goodbye, theyre going to continue to give us aid, and continuous to give us intelligence support. So he seemed pretty confident that the kabul government could hold. Co you seem more skeptical. I think if we do maintain that support, the kabul government could hold because people dont want to return to the taliban. Think about what happened in afghanistan since 2001, this is another part of the story that i wish would receive more coverage. Afghanistan is transformed since 2001. Kabul has grown by orders of magnitude. In a country where maybe there were just a few phones because communication was so limited, everybody has a cell phone. It is the most open society in terms of freedom of the Press And Freedom of expression. Now the taliban hates this idea, this is why theyre murdering journalists and attacked the American University Of Afghanistan and gunned down young men and women who were trying to build a better future for their country. So of course they deserve our support. If we provide that support, i believe that they could hold on. But of course, what well see at the very least with the disengagement some of our very important Combat Support to afghans is the intensification of the war and a return to violence on the potential of civil car from 92 to 96 which was devastating and created a Refugee Crisis and destabilizing pakistan that country has nuclear weapons so the stakes i think are extremely high and were not talking about the war in a meaningful accurate way. Were engaging in this strategic narcism and Self Delusion. General macmaster, thank you for that powerful intelligent critique. 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Welcome, let me ask you, weve heard a lot about afghanistan from the Point Of View of national security, the president has to think about, is what is going on in Afghanistan Worth the continuation of American Military presence there or is president Bidens Decision correct . I think the decision is correct, fareed. I listened carefully to my friends h. R. Mcmasters analysis i think it is a prescription for being at war with the taliban without end, with no end point. If you sit back and take a Note And Perspective of the president and you look at the global Threat Picture faced by the United States today, not 20 years ago, and you take into account what we have accomplished in afghanistan to address the Al Qaeda and isis threat, would you not have a significant Military Presence continue in afghanistan. The threat, the Terror Threat which is very real and the Al Qaeda and isis are the Principle Sunni threats, they disperse and it is not contained in a single geographic area. The president uniquely is charged with making decisions about where men and women of the united States Military forces are to be put at risk. And i think in this case, to ener into a conflict without end, to continue to try to find an illusive set of conditions for full withdraw, i dont think is in the united States Interest and it wont remain static. H. R. Mcmaster said there hasnt been a Troop Kill the since 2020, during the negotiation and that wont remain static, though. In fact, i think if the United States made a decision and announced a decision to remain in a Combat Role in a military deployed role in afghanistan you could see an escalation. And last i would say, fareed, we have the capability to deal with the threats that emerge from afghanistan or might emerge from afghanistan. We have the capabilities that weve developed over the last 20 years are extraordinary with respect to intelligence and over the horizon Capabilities Doctrine and weaponry and i think we have the capability to deal with it should it arise. Al qaeda does not have the capability to exec suit a external threat against the United States but Bill Burns said the other day in front of the congress that the United States would develop and we have the ability to develop the Intelligence Outlook to anticipate and contest Al Qaeda if it should try to reconstitute. And the mission, i think, has changed in terms of its focus to a diplomatic humanitarian economic mission. There is leverage in that case. So i think it is a right decision after 20 years of military operations. And there are limits at the end of the day that we discovered with respect to what the united States Military could accomplish with respect to the internal dynamics and Con Flicks In Afghanistan so i think it is a realistic decision and to end where i started if you take the lens back and you look at world and the opportunities and challenges that the United States has in the world today, you would not have you would not continue a Military Mission in afghanistan because you do have the capabilities to deal with the threat. Let me ask you, tom, about another thing that a big thing that happened this week which is the russian massing of forces on ukraine which happened at the same time the United States announced sanctions against russia. Are we spiraling downwards to a possible russian invasion of ukraine, what do you think is going on . As you said at the top of segment, Russias Have amassed large a force as it had in 2014. The scale and the scope is quite similar. Now, unlike 2014, theyve made in effort to hide this build up. Indeed they have promoted the buildup. It is not clear what russias intentions are, whether it is try to intimidate, to extract concessions from the zelensky administration, and it is not routine, that is for certain, but it is not clear ultimately what the purpose is of the build up or whether it is a preparation for a Military Action, again theyre not in any way trying to hide their build up so that would be i think you would probably bet against that but it is just not clear at this point. But what i will say is this, fareed, which is why it deserves close attention because of the scale, but also because the fact is that putin has shown a high tolerance for risky behavior. Whether it be the invasion of ukraine and the takeover of crimea or intervention in the Middle East or 2020 election interference, putin has shown a high tolerance for risky behavior so i think it bears close watching and we need to be clear about what the response would be by the United States and the world if in fact he engaged in a Military Action in and against ukraine which that would include i think a number of a number of expanded sanctions i think continued and expanded support of defensive Military Weaponry for the military and other things but it bears watching for sure. A pleasure to have you on. Thank you, sir. Next on gps, will they do anything about the spiraling brutality in myanmar, which is only getting worse. Ill talk to Clarissa Ward who is in that country when we come back. Raise the jar to all five layers. Raise the jar to the best gelato. Youve ever tasted. Talenti. Raise the jar. You need a financial plan that can help grow and protect your money. 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Granted access by the myanmar military which seized power on February 1st in a coup. Welcome, clarissa. Thank you, fareed. So i know when you go into these kinds of circumstances, it is extraordinarily heroic, but you are often surrounded by Government Minders and security. Were you able to get, was there any point at which you felt as though you were able to get a sense of how people on the ground in myanmar are reacting to this very brutal crackdown . Well, our expectations were very limited for exactly the reason you say. We were surrounded by minders, a convey of soldiers, we had plain Clothes Security officers filming our every move. We have translators sh you name it, we had it and we didnt anticipate to interact with ordinary people but we had this extraordinary moment where we finally were given permission to just shoot video in a market, a simple Ord Market and simple ordinary people and within minutes of us taking our our camera even though we were surrounded by security, one man flashed the three Finger Hunger games salute. That salute has become the symbol of defiance against the military coup. And then he came up to us and i asked why did you show us that gesture and he said because we want justice. And then another man came up and said were not frightened and another woman said said we want democracy. We dont want to go back to the dark age and there was some profounding humbling and moving moment where i heard the market was the sound of people banging pots an pans, this is an old tradition to ward off evil spirits but it the Signature Sound of resistance in myanmar. And i was so struck by the extraordinary courage of people who were able to demand Democracy And Dignity even standing right in front of our hunta minders and guards. Now we do know that the chinese and the russians have supported the military. What is striking to me is even the neighboring democracies like India And Indonesia have not raised any protests. It seems as though the military has the external support that they need or certainly no real external pressure. And that is why people were so desperate to talk to us. Because there is a sense of crushing disappointment from the people in myanmar, that the international community is not able to act in concert and condemn universally what is happening and essentially put a stop to it. This is expected to be of china and russia. Weve seen them adopt this kind of a strans to hamstring the u. N. Security council before but it is the Southeast Asia nations that Haven Rated a huge amount of disappointment, people wanting to see them come out and condemn the violence, condemn the coup. Theyre not seeing that and that is exactly why theyre losing hope in the process of the international community being able to do anything to remedy the situation. I want to ask you about syria, because one of the reasons that syria became so bloody was that the regime and others exploited the many deep cleavages within syrian society between the sunnis and the Islamist And Isis and the secularists, myanmar has lots of ethnic diversity and the rohingya. It is likely, could you imagine a kind of Downward Spiral where it becomes really a kind of all against all Civil War . I can. But not exactly for the reasons that youre describing. And there is no question that actually the Tat Maga tried to exploit those divisions and woo the ethnic groups and that appears to have backfired and theyre not playing ball. But when i saw the scenes of ordinary people basically willing to rick everything, march into a hail of bullets to demand Democracy And Dignity and when i look at a regime that is essentially willing to kill its way into victory, to destroy its own country, to protect its own interests, and then you also have the complexity of in different ethnic groups and on top of that, the sort of ineffectiveness of the international community standing on the side lines ringing its hands issuing statements and condemnations but not really being able to effect any forceful kind of robust action. That is what makes my Stomach Drop and my heartache when i think of the potential for myanmar to devolve into a bloody Civil War along the lines of syria. A powerful and courageous reporting. Clarissa ward, thank you so much. 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