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Possible that we could see this last stage of the taliban take-over of the country in a more peaceful way than other parts of the country have fallen. you know, i m told that some of the taliban elders in doha have been encouraging some of the younger taliban fighters on the ground in afghanistan not to sweep through kabul and destroy the city and destroy the infrastructure. so it s hard to know if they are listening to them, they are listening to the elders or the more senior negotiators who have been in doha for sometime, negotiating with the u.s. and the afghan government, or if this is just the beginning of an offensive. but again, it s really important to point out that while there is a lot of reporting out there both on social media in some of the you know, the afghan media who are really doing yoeman s work right now, if, in ....
Don t want to destroy the city and assault the human rights of individuals in kabul. but i can t really believe that given the reporting we ve heard from other places. you know, essentially the afghan people are surrendering. and this, of course, started with the afghan government because the military would not have surrendered if it weren t for the fact that they were not properly provisioned, you know, meaning having materiel, food and ammunition, and of course the political support, the will of the government in kabul. but, you know, again, the international community, the united states, we really need to look at what happens here. there was clearly an intelligence failure. and the way that we are leaving now is an absolute, as i said in my tweet, disaster. yeah, you said it s an absolute disaster. and as you mentioned, you covered this area under your purview when you worked for president obama, the eurasia area. i m curious for your perspective on what this day means for ....
20-year war that has been afghanistan. reporter: yeah, i think today and actually the next couple of days are going to be very telling. you know, i mean, it s developing, to say it was lightning fast is almost an understatement for how we ve watch this happen in the last week. you know, this taliban offensive actually began weeks ago on the outskirts of the more rural parts of the country. the estimates people have been speaking with at that time, mt. worst case scenario estimates we might see the taliban on the door steps of kabul in the fall. not in mid august like we re seeing right now. i think the big yeah, i think the big question right now is what comes next. and if there are i just spoke with the defense official and if it s true that there is a negotiation ongoing right now at the presidential palace, it is ....
People also safely to the airport and get them out of the country. and this really has been a fast-moving development just over the last 24 hours with the taliban taking jalalabad in the outskirts of kabul where kabul is completely surrounded and completely isolated. and we know their m.o.. the way the taliban has been able to do this so quickly is they gain strength with each province that they capture, because we know that one of their m.o. s is they empty prisons so prisoners join their ranks, and take weapons some of which supplied by the u.s. and some by nato. we are following breaking developments, live pictures on your screen. we re going to britton in pentagon correspondent courtney kube. we re watching pictures all over the place. it has been lightning fast. we get a sense that today will be a very pivotal day in the ....
That? we know from shannon pettypiece s reporting they are withdrawing military and diplomatic efforts in the region. lyndsay, i worked on afghanistan as a senior staffer, under the bush administration, i worked under president obama in the executive branch. i ran for congress last year saying we should leave afghanistan, but not this way. and the problem is that, you know, we have maximum leverage and we had maximum leverage. frankly, i would say before president trump got into office because it was clear that once he was in, he was going to try to withdraw us and possibly suddenly precipitously. but we really didn t use that leverage very effectively. that s obvious. and so you know, what relieves now? the military force we have in kabul is still some leverage. the fact that the taliban has to exist in an international order, so maybe they need some assistance. they are, it does seem, trying to get a message out that they ....