With the Taliban continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, President Biden has authorized a total of 5,000 troops to assist with the drawdown in Kabul. NBC’s Joshua Johnson spoke to the Washington Post’s Craig Whitlock about the latest on the situation on the ground and what happens next in Afghanistan.» Subscribe to MSNBC:
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Biden Deploys Additional Troops as Taliban Gains Ground in Afghanistan
Why has the Afghan military folded so fast? Why should we fight and die there if they wont even fight for heir own country. The British left this place a hundred years ago the Russians left in the 80’s place is a wasteland.
@Mfcane Dingiswayo it’s not support it’s more like saving their own skin .
It’s complicated
Brits never got there.. tried but failed but stopped their advance into Punjab or Pakistan as it’s today…
@Scott Garner Joe Biden’s brother got 200 million in the early 90s, got another 500 million in 2008… Probably gonna make a little over 1 billion this time
@ape kaspank good for them. Lots of other folks and companies made money not just the President’s son.
Hope is not a strategy. They spent all this money, put Americans lives on the line because they hoped they could make things sustainable? Inept government.
I foresee hostage situation’s.
The flag has been removed from the embassy.
@Pugs Hugs from what I know, the Taliban had taken over much of Afghanistan. They are pushing and seizing Kabul, the Capitol of Afghanistan I believe. US is sending 5000 troops over to rescue and get people out of the US embassy. It’s escalating quickly. Very quickly
Murders. Rapes. Why didn’t they have a better plan???? The US military has billions at their disposal.
I bet Biden was dumb enough to leave all the surface to air missiles there also.
Cnn and msnbc will call them peaceful hostage takers.
maria schultz it’s like Biden went to Amish military school.
This is simply heartbreaking…the soldiers we’ve lost, the allies we’ve left behind and as a woman I’m afraid what they are going to do to women and girls.
Already beasts are grabbing girls as young as 12.
@Callandor I hate to dehumanize a person but their actions are animalistic and for what! They don’t have to live a western way of life but their option is worse and harder for both men and women.
America sexualization of women is great. The greatest accomplishment of America is that a man can marry another man this country would definitely fall one day God told us
20+ years…..US troops need to return to their families.
Yeah, let’s just pull out and leave our allies to die…….just like we always do.
@Pete Rembranch People are lining the streets to welcome the Taliban…friends of America are obviously the minority, its been 20 years and Bin Laden is dead…let them have their country back
@Pete Rembranch As a father of a young man who served two tours of duty, I say good riddance to that failed mission. It’s not worth losing anymore American lives.
I thought diversity was our strength, how could the US military loose 🙁
Like Vietnam, Afghanistan is a political war
Ya I server from 84 till 92 ( really 93 )
@Mike can’t trust you either
@John T That’s funny that you would say that. DEMENTIA JOE , smart man said, the same thing to me. Now look at the mess. VERY SAD.
@Mike NO, it was NOT the way Biden took care of it, it would have happened like this anyway, the only way it could have a better outcome is if the Taliban was wiped out
@psycobleach46 tullis I agree 💯. DEMENTIA JOE got some bad advice. You don’t leave Americans at the embassy behind and you don’t send 5,000 American soldiers back. Don’t look back. I’m wrong?????
So sad what a waste of lives.Billions of dollars and training and the Afghan government doesn’t have the will to defend the country.
what country? control by US?
just corruption and bad leadership
The Democrats got what they want another War
The objective was never to win. The objective was to pad the pockets of powerful people in the military industrial complex.
@tony fat the dems are not creating a war they are leaving a war moron.
Everything Biden does is a disaster
Everything the US has done is a disaster. How a country can be so incompetent in electing a proper leader for the past two dozen years is embarrassing.
Everything George w bush did was a disaster he is the reason why we are there in the first place
This is another badge of failure to add to Slow Joe’s trophy case.
@Prospects Biden voted for both wars.
Saigon all over again. America just doesn’t learn from history.
Lol the Brits and the Soviets figured this out already.
American schools don’t teach history anymore.
@maria schultz Biden claimed to have asthma but he doesn’t appear to have it now. He probably lied, he often lies and we know he’s a coward.
@Doug CarterYou are right about that… I had a numpty say… The English language started in America…
@Joey S. I agree. Bring them home. It’s long oveerdu.
The sleeping joe should wake up.
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The woke CIA assessment is wrong once again? The stone age Taliban has won the strongest army in the world due to political failures in Washington
He just said last week this would not happen?
That shows how good his judgement is, if any.
This is biden’s mess.
Has America considered electing a president who isn’t crooked, dim-witted or senile?
We got rid of that one in 2020.
@brenda north Yes, then we got one thats far worse! We need JFK!…the last real President American had.
A person like that could not get elected even to school board in most areas.
If they did it certainly wouldn’t be a republican
Ask Schumer, Pelosi or Cuomo.
Biden: Don’t worry this war is transitory!
Another solid victory for the Biden administration….. Go ahead MSNBC you got your work ahead of you to spin this one.
They’ll just ignore it, like the border.
Biden said in July Taliban wouldn’t take over. You’ve got short memory
Hey ho, hey ho, Afghanistan (Vietnam) Joe has got to go.
I imagine the Taliban is putting everything they’ve got into this offensive of theirs so once it’s defeated the Taliban will cease being a threat.