route. and the 1,000 already there. the orders come as the taliban gained even more ground, today, closing in on kabul. we have two reports, tonight, and we begin with kelly cobiella in kabul. reporter: tonight, president biden ordering more u.s. troops back into afghanistan. raising the total, now, to 5,000 personnel. already on the ground at a military compound at kabul airport for what the pentagon says is a limited mission to get americans out the u.s. ambassador and commander for u.s. forces in afghanistan, meeting with president ashraf ghani today and the head of afghan special forces now, in charge of defending kabul, as the taliban close in on the capital, reportedly seven miles away but not yet fighting in this propaganda video, they claim they ambushed an
partner, we shouldn t be wasting these military resources on a strategy that is not working. if that s the case, is there an option between backing karzai and the other extreme one that you suggest which is pulling out the entire mission altogether? is there an alternative to karzai? is there some somebody and some path to another credible local partner? well, i want to be clear, i m not advocating a complete withdrawal. i m saying we should stop the surge, reduce the number of troops to the numbers that we had at the start of the obama administration. there are still missions that can be accomplished, counterterroism, defending kabul, defending the nonpashtun parts of the country. i also think we it s important that we take a different approach. the white house spokesman was