The Core Strategic Impossibility That Kept The U.S. In Afghanistan - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow looks at the Taliban's use of Pakistan as a base of operations as why the U.S., while able to depose the Taliban in Afghanistan, could not completely wrap up the next step. Aired on 04/14/2021.




With US Set To Leave Afghanistan, Concerns Turn To Afghan Allies Left Behind - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

David Rohde, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor for news at NewYorker.com, talks with Rachel Maddow about the need to give visas to Afghans who helped and fought alongside U.S. forces against the Taliban and who will be left vulnerable when the U.S. and NATO leave in September. Aired on 04/14/2021.

[Duncanpup]

1. I'm glad we're leaving

[Rhiannon12866]

2. So am I.

Few of us think much about it anymore, it's been so long. It really is incredible that we have a president who knows what he's doing and has accomplished so much in just a few weeks. The future suddenly looks hopeful...

[Kath2]

4. Very glad that we are finally getting out.

It is wonderful that the Biden/Harris administration has the sense to end this seemingly endless war. And, yes I take it as a hopeful sign of things to come.

[Victor_c3]

3. What a waste

After my time in Iraq in 2004-2005, I would have predicted this exactly - that whenever we left the are would immediately go back to chaos.

Other than Producing a new cohort of patients for the VA and who collect disability for their services connected injuries, we’ve got nothing to show.