Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss his reporting that the U.S. military anticipated the collapse of the Afghan security forces, an institution he says was "rotten to the core". Whitlock adding the White House, State Department and Pentagon "did not have much faith" that the Afghan security forces could endure without U.S. help.
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In hindsight, the mistake seems clear: the Afghanis most motivated to defend against the Taliban are the women, so the army and police forces should have been mostly women.
Yes!!!
‘Chaos in Kabul’ should be the name of this misbegotten operation.
Martin – ‘Chaos in Kabul because tRump negotiated to have Pakistan release Mullah Baradar, co-founder of Afghan’s Taliban, from prison in 2018. Baradar is now Afghan’s president.”
@Mary Clawson Good Point.
armchair quarterbacks are all the media can do enough blame to go around people
The buck stops here. Joe Biden
@Bob Jones Mr. president was smart enough to say the Buck Stops here/ but the enough blame can go around.
Should’ve elected Bernie
And Congress knew of the true conditions on the ground as well.
Historically, Islamic armies have always had corruption issues in the command structure.
Gosh, how could we possibly foresee that the Afghan military might not be willing to fight to the death for thieving commanders and a corrupt government?
It’s a mystery that can never be solved.
Yes, they’ve never really been a unified nation, and their government hasn’t earned much loyalty.
Everyone knew that what they didn’t know that they were going to collapse so fast
does the average American realize the Afghanistan invasion/occupation cost them $300,000,000 EVERYDAY FOR 20 YEARS…while they cheered “Usa, Usa,”
think where the US would be now, if roads, bridges, medicare, schools etc were built, instead of wars..??!!
WE GET IT, OK PROFESSOR? I wonder if YOUR government has neglected to tell it’s citizenry anything, ever? Hmmm….. You sound very special and should write a book to fill everyone in. But you make your profound, glib declarations on YouTube comments, an American platform upon which you entertain yourself for free. Ironic. Lol.
where are the chants of “USA, USA” now….?
America has spent the last 4 years drumming it into the heads of everyone in Afghanistan that they definitely don’t want to be anything like the Americans.
So glad we are getting OUT. Even if it is a messy exit!
Looks like Trumpo was the sleepy one
The government corruption is now coming to the surface; that is just like Viet Nam.
The way she plugged his book and congratulates him there in the end.. is really all you have to know about MSNBC and the way they think about the world around them. What a terrible reporter she is.
So….were gonna bring on a guy who researched and wrote a whole book about this to give us some insight, but never mention the fact.
Yeah, that would make sense…🙄
Afghans could not help themselves, other than to pocket the salaries of their subordinates.
There was never going to be a good time to pull out of Afghanistan , so no matter the president presiding at the time they are the scapegoat
This was one of the reason the Vietnam war dragged on for so long. No president wanted to admit defeat.
Agree
@Robert van Ruyssevelt Thankfully Biden didn’t have to admit defeat. The orange traitor did that when he unilaterally surrendered to the Taliban and released 5000 of their soldiers.
What does everyone want us to do take on Afghanistan’s enemies forever . If we are we should make it a state and let them start paying taxes .
If US officials have known about the corruption in Afghanistan for some time, why wasn’t anything done about it?
Why spend several hundreds of billions of USD on the US military every year? We should cut the military spending by 90% and come in line with the rest of the world. Wars do not bring PEACE in the 21st century!