Week. Climate envoy John Kerry will help us understand the prognosis of it. But first heres my take. As we watch the tragedy that is unfolding in afghanistan, lets first dispense with the fantasy that the United States was maintaining the peace there with just a few thousand troops and that the situation couldve been managed with this small commitment. For the last couple of years, it sure looked that way to americans because washington had made a deal with the taliban, and as a result the taliban was deliberately not attacking u. S. And coalition forces. For the afghans, the war had been intensifying. In the summer of 2019 the afghan Army And Police force suffered their worst casualties in the two decades of fighting. It was also the worst spirit for afghan civilian casualties in a decade. In 2018 when the u. S. Had four times as many troops as this year, 282 civilian afghans fled their homes in the countryside. A Government Survey done that year showed that afghan support for u. S. T
Next. Pain and regret. Hospitals are running out of beds. Plus new era. New york will welcome its first female governor after Andrew Cuomo resigns in disgrace. No one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment. What is her plan to clean up New York politics . New Yorks Lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul joins me ahead. Hello. Im Jack Tapper in washington with the state of our union watching a tragic foreign Policy Disaster unfold before our eyes. Weeks before the anniversary of 9 11 and the deadline of President Bidens complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, the taliban having seized much of that country theyre now At The Gates of the Capital City of kabul. Their representatives are meeting with leadership inside the afghan president ial palace. The rapid crumbling of the country has caught the biden White House flat footed. On saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 Service Members there when he took office, President Biden said he would deplo
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