consequences on the failure in afghanistan. the editorial was a lot around the houthis and the saudis and the war. telling them knock it off. you need a diplomatic settlement, and they are saying the taliban got their military solution, and we want ours. it reminds me of the old woody allen movie where he s at a cocktail party in manhattan, and they are talking about the nazis marching on new jersey. he says we need to go down there and meet them with baseball bats and so forth. one of the other guest says no, i think what s called for is a strongly worded op-ed in the new york times. it just looks ridiculous. these people, they are not intimidated by over the horizon capacities and systems that they must do something. john: very often, youse got to have some sort of strength. there are criticisms. the secretary of state is not
gates in kabul and whether these individuals can attack the united states. so i guess the simple question is, acknowledging that you re going to try to limit what access they do have to some of the weaponry in ways that you can t communicate here, but at the end of the day, whether it s not the united states that s under risk as a function of this, are americans around the globe, i mean, are western interests now more at risk because the taliban has new access to all this weaponry? well, again, peter, i would say that we the world will be watching. we have an enormous amount of leverage, including access to the global marketplace, which is not a small piece of leverage, to the taliban, who are now overseeing large swaths of afghanistan. certainly, our objective was not to leave them with any equipment, but that is not always an option when you are looking to retrograde and move out of a war zone. but that is our clear leverage we have with the taliban, and again, our capacities a
gathering outside of the gates outside of the gates of kabul. and in acknowledging that, you will limit what access they have to some of the weaponry that are in ways that you cannot communicate here, and it is not the united states under risk here, but americans around the globe, and western interests at risk, because the afghans have access to thek? the world is watching and we have leverage including access to the global piece which is not a small leverage to the taliban who are overseeing large swathes of afghanistan. our objective was to not leave them with any equipment, but it is not an option to retrograde and move out of the war zone, but that is the clear leverage with the taliban and the capacities are over the horizon capacities that by the way killed two isis terrorists and
0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate the pickup and move them out to alexandria is the plan. and our systems are down and we have no communication and the water systems are down, and we are losing pressure and we had to do the boil advisory, and we will have the backup systems there with the sewage, and that is a hygiene problem, and encouraging the residents who are out of the area, not to come back, and to stay out, because we don t have the modern amenities to take care of them. and the people who stayed there in the storm who a
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do