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Even after 20 years of support of the military it collapsed. so maybe it s on us as well. here s a helicopter. we re not going to show you every single one because it s been constant. but the shock when the u.s. pulled out of bagram air base, bagram air base was taken back by the taliban. they freed the prisoners outside of kabul. when the military pulled out of bagram, without properly informing those who were to take over the base and turning off the power so the afghans couldn t figure out how to put it back on, because the bases are not just a light switch. it s like a city you have to operate. so handing over the country in such a hasty manner sent a shock to the afghan troops. so that also helped collapse their, their morale, i think. so there are multiple issues here. it s not just the afghans who are to blame. ....
Fact, this is just the very beginning, the very, very tip of the offensive here or if maybe we re going to see kabul move in a different direction than we ve seen some of these other cities. it s also important to point out, you were just mentioning jalalabad. if the taliban moved in, they met virtually no resistance from the afghan military and they were able to take over not only jalalabad but the entire province there right outside of kabul without much fighting. and, courtney, is that because the afghan military is trying to protect civilian lives? reporter: you know, it s hard to say. i think every single area has been different. every province and every provincial capital have been different. but this may be as much about preservation of civilian lives as it is about preservation of the afghan military who have just really been overrun in some of these places. you know, in some of the cases, ....
Rights to exist in afghanistan today and into the future. but it s very difficult. the international community needs to rally together. of course, we have countries like pakistan, like russia who frankly are, i would guess, pretty hard allied now with the taliban. we re going to have to work with them. china, on the other hand, is quite worried about the instability and the increase in activity that could result in china proper because of the territory of afghanistan being a place where militants can operate. so there may be an opportunity there. but this is a situation that we could have prevented, and now we have to scramble diplomatically to try to salvage what we can. all right. we re going to have to leave it there. but former deputy assistant secretary in the department of defense evelyn farkas, we appreciate your time and expertise. thank you for joining us. thank you. as i was mentioning in the report, we re trying the city ....
Gunfire and some movement of taliban fighters, primarily in from the northte of the city. but as of now, according to the u.s. military, they don t assess this to be a massive movement or an organized advance of the taliban intoce kabul right now. that could be because of these reports that we re hearing from afghan media that, in fact, the taliban may be negotiating with the current afghan government for some sort of negotiated settlement here. that s just the latest from the u.s. military perspective. again as you well know from the hours of coverage here it s changing hour by hour and almosu minute by minute. but it s also important to point out that we ve been talking about and evelyn who is excellent and knows this better than anyone, bagram has fallen into the hands of the taliban and the prison there has been emptied out and the humanitarian situation is pretty dire in the weeks and days and months. courtney kube for the very ....
Spring, in may. and right from the beginning there was just the air force and afghan commandos who were resisting and both of those are quite small units relative to the big army that the u.s. trained and equipped. so i don t know why the u.s. military would have thought that it could have lasted another couple of months when very early on, entire divisions were falling. and then war is all psychological. it s about momentum and the taliban got the momentum and they broke the morale of the afghan military quite quickly. and then ultimately, even the commandos in the air force realized they were fighting alone and gave up some of their bases. so bases i was on doing those reports a month ago, they re now held by the taliban. commanders that i spoke to there are either at home in kabul, or they re not answering their phones. i don t know where some of them are. richard, you re talking about the morale among the afghan ....