Military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. That was the choice, the real choice, between leaving or escalating. I was not going to extend this forever war. And i was not extending a forever exit. To those asking for a third decade of war in afghanistan, i ask, what is the vital national interest . It was time to end this war. We will maintain the fight against terrorism. We just dont need to fight a Ground War to do it. And to isisk, we are not done with you yet. The speech gets the broader outlines of his Foreign Policy, saying that the era of Nation Building is over. The president also noted that the u. S. Would help evacuate the estimated 1 to 200 americans still in afghanistan, if they want to leave. The State Department also think kabul embassy staff, posting this photo taken just before the departure. There is no longer an embassy in afghanistan. Those diplomats will now be based in qatar. Meanwhile Nbc News has learned more about just how closely the taliban work
Im chris hayes. One as american americans say the aftermath at The End of the 20year war, many people have noted that the violence in afghanistan itself, is not over. Far from it. There are millions of afghans. These are of course people like you and me, family members, jobs, hopes, dreams. Who have known only a war, their entire lives. In the history of human life, on this planet, most political conflict has been resolved violently. Conquering empires. But he Civil Wars. Ethnic cleansing. Its a great miracle, of a functioning Liberal Democracy. Like the one we find ourselves in. That we find a way to resolve the inherent conflict, two different factions in beliefs and religious and ethnic groups juries without resorting to violence. That the idea. The idea is we resolve those differences, through democratic struggle. In protest. And free speech, politics. And all those other features we have, of liberal democratic nations like our own. But all that is being threatened right now, befor