The people of afghanistan have suffered under one of the most brutal regimes. In modern history. A regime with terrorists and a regime at war with women. Thanks to our military and our allies and the brave fighters of afghanistan, the Taliban Regime is coming to an end. Tonight, 20 years later, the Taliban Regime is back. After sweeping across afghanistans provinces in a matter of days. Taliban forces have entered the Capital City of kabul. On saturday, the afghan president told the afghan people in a recorded message that remobilizing the Nations Security forces was his top priority, but today, Ghani Fled Kabul and supposedly 300,000 strong u. S. Funded strong military is all but vanished. Afghans the nations banks and many more are contemplating their fate. You are looking at video by Al Jazeera of fighters milling about in the president ial palace in kabul. Nbc news has verified the authenticity of this video. Tonight, were dedicating the entire show to the imminent and catastrophic
Good evening. It was December 2001 when then president george w. Bush made this announcement. For several years, the people of afghanistan have suffered under one of the most brutal regimes in modern history. A regime with terrorists and a regime at war with women. Thanks to our military and our allies and the brave fighters of afghanistan, the Taliban Regime is coming to an end. Tonight, 20 years later, the Taliban Regime is back. After sweeping across afghanistans provinces in a matter of days, taliban forces have entered the city Of Kabul. On saturday, the afghan president told the afghan people in a recorded message that remobilizing the Nations Security forces was his top priority, but today, Ghani Fled Kabul and supposedly 300,000 strong u. S. Funded Afghan Military has all but vanished. Afghans in kabul are making a run on the nations banks, and many more are contemplating their fate. You are looking at video by Al Jazeera of fighters milling about in the president ial palace in
Presidential palace. they ve renamed the country the islamic emirate. taken down the afghan flag and hoisted up their own colors. it s been a relatively peaceful, if you like, process. they haven t had to fire a lot of shots. there hasn t been a lot of bloodshed in kabul. it was a pretty straightforward takeover for them. they ve also taken over the airport. there have been reports of shots fired at the airport and taliban fighters are all over the place. but they re not in any sort of clashes with u.s. personnel. although commercial flights have so far been suspended, military evacuation flights are still taking place and from what we understand right now, most of the u.s. personnel are at the airport now trying to get on to various evacuation flights out of the country with very few security personnel left at the embassy. burning what s left of sensitive
The presidential palace in kabul. video appears to show taliban fighters lounging in chairs and strolling around with their guns. the taliban has confirmed to the local producer that the pictures are accurate and they are indeed in the presidential palace. so what comes next? both for afghanistan and the u.s.? valle, let me start with you. joe biden, whether you blame him or not, and there will be a long blame game about who is to blame. rightly or wrongly, he is the president when this happened. this happened in his first year in office. what happens to his foreign policy? what happens to his credibility on the world stage going forward from this point? this was a deal signed by president trump. the doha agreement was signed by president trump. president biden had the option of not carrying it out and risk an escalation of conflict with the taliban. let s not forget the last two years, the taliban were not shooting on americans because
For 20 years, presidents of both parties told us again and again that we were winning in afghanistan. that all the money we poured into the afghan military was worth it. that the 2300 american troops killed there since 2001 hadn t died in vain. george w. bush said it. barack obama said it. donald trump said it. joe biden said it. just in april. we have trained and equipped a standing force of over 300,000 afghan personnel to date and hundreds of thousands over the past two decades and they ll continue to fight valiantly on behalf of the afghans at great cost. and yet, here we are. because no one wanted to tell the simple truth that american ingenuity in dollars and weaponry cannot remake the world in our image. our leaders knew. the washington post 2019 investigation into the afghanistan papers, a trove of classified interviews with u.s.