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narrative correct that we have accomplished nothing in afghanistan? maybe now we are realising we did may be accomplished quite a bit, as we see the rights of the people we have supported over these years being extinguished. it was the was a narrative correct that we could not sustain the effort? we were spending the equivalent of 2.5% of our defence budget on operations in afghanistan. even before the capitulation agreement we had 8500 troops there. that is a lot if you are ecuador, but we are not ecuador and actually at the time of withdrawal there are more coalition troops there, european and others there, than there were us troops. that was sustainable over time. was afghanistan going to remain a ward of the international community for the foreseeable future? yes. is it worth it? i think it was, especially now when we are confronted with the alternative. ., now when we are confronted with the alternative. . ., , . ~ ., alternative. that was back to talkin: alternative. that was bac
government, ashraf ghani fled on a plane as this was falling apart. does the u.s. military share responsibility going back several years for misleading the american people as to what the u.s. had built there in terms of a credible afghan security force and a credible afghan government? well, i ll tell you, jim, in my experience we were very candid about short comings within the afghan national security forces and part of the design was a sustained commitment by the united states. helping them with their asymmetrical abilities, the air power capabilities that were different from the talibans capabilities which is unscrupulousness, and brutality. and so we pulled the carpet out from under them and it was most important is we delivered a series of psychological blows to them. we told them you re not party to this negotiation with the taliban. we entered into a capitulation
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who
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