This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)
5,348,939 viewsMay 27, 2013
They all knew in 2013 the Afghan army wasn't up to the task. They would either disappear into the crowd or join the the Taliban providing the skills the Americans military taught them.
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@56:02 "Try to find a police commander who doesn't fuck young boys"
The entire thing has been a complete cluster fuck
Biden won’t talk Afghanistan amid chaos, instead pushes COVID vaccines
By Samuel Chamberlain
August 18, 2021 5:58pm
For the second time in three days, President Biden delivered a major address from the East Room of the White House — but took no questions from the press corps about the unfolding debacle in Afghanistan.
Biden announced a series of measures Wednesday related to COVID-19 — including threatening to have the Education Department sue GOP governors who have barred school districts from imposing mask mandates — but made no mention of the country where up to 15,000 Americans and thousands more allies are believed to be stranded in territory now held by the Taliban.
“Quite frankly, it’s a tragedy,” Biden said at one point. “There are people who are dying, and will die, who didn’t have to.”
But he was talking about the high levels of hospitalizations due to the spread of the contagious Delta variant, and not reports from Afghanistan that Taliban fighters are whipping ordinary Afghans who attempt to cross their checkpoints in a desperate bid to catch evacuation flights out of Hamid Karzai International Airport on the outskirts of Kabul.
On Monday, in the same room, Biden had defended his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan and pinned much of the blame for the ensuing chaos on his predecessor, Donald Trump, and Afghan political and military leaders.
As he had done fewer than 48 hours before, Biden left the East Room without slowing or stopping for shouted inquiries from the assembled media. It was the last event on his public schedule.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/biden-wont-talk-afghanistan-instead-pushing-covid-vaccines/
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly fled Kabul with $169 million in cash
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been "welcomed" to the United Arab Emirates on "humanitarian grounds," the UAE government confirmed Wednesday. On Sunday, Ghani fled Kabul without announcement or known destination, as the Taliban laid siege to Afghanistan's capital, writes CNBC. He took with him $169 million in cash, reports BBC journalist Kawoon Khamoosh.
https://news.yahoo.com/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-reportedly-154427580.html