Afghanistan just got Very Bad.

everyone meet kevin here this is

essentially worst case scenario for

afghanistan and this is what i've been

concerned about i've been concerned i've

been talking to friends family we've

talked about it on youtube that once we

pull out the odds are we're gonna go

right back to suicide bombings well

folks today is the day

today so far we have had upwards of now

three

bombings

outside the kabul airport in afghanistan

last night the united states embassy in

kabul said there was a credible threat

incredible terror threat that is and to

stay away from the airport

the united kingdom said there was a

highly lethal terror threat

uh hours before the attack

and australia also issued an alert

saying that a

credible threat was imminent and that

people should leave immediately

unfortunately because people are

struggling to escape afghanistan people

did not leave the airport and now we

have had at least two explosions with a

possible third explosion and 12 u.s

service members have died including 11

marines and one

navy medic

in the last 18 months

before this disastrous withdrawal we

have not lost a single

military

member

so this is a really sad and uh dark day

now we understand that uh our prior

administration had agreements with the

taliban

but the reality is the taliban is not

solely to blame here

the expectation is that these suicide

bombings

occurred

either under isis k guidance or under al

qaeda guidance

we're not exactly sure yet

but the reality is clear

the

taliban do not have control

no control

there is a deal currently in place that

the taliban will provide folks a safe

passage to the airport

and american military members along with

nato allies have been providing

whatever passage they could to create

safe passage and safe convoys to get

people into the airport

like american citizens or citizens of

nato countries or

contractors military contractors

reporters

but

the taliban here are completely failing

and unfortunately

when these explosions happened more

chaos was evident taliban were shooting

into the sky freaking out we've got

about 60 people in total killed again

about 12 american service members 140

people plus wounded

there are people and i won't show images

but you could just look at hashtag

afghanistan on on twitter's video or

images section and it's it's horrible

you'll see

bodies being thrown into

rivers

bodies everywhere blood everywhere

people running with injured babies

victims being carried away in in

wheelbarrows

uh it's it's complete

chaos

and lawlessness and and just

uh

it's sad it's really really sad

and it's not as if the taliban doesn't

have enough equipment

the taliban just took over an entire

country

full of hundreds of humvees

helicopters

mostly american-made military equipment

such as boeing surveillance drones

rocket launchers

military grade

m4 carbines

uniforms bullet profess you name it

and

there is such a lack of coordination of

taliban leadership uh this is where i

agree with joe biden that the taliban

are a quote ragtag force

that there really is no security or

stability here

and now the big question is is the

united states just going to

end this withdrawal sooner

or how many more people have to die

trying to bring control and stability

back to afghanistan and is that even

possible

look it's easy to say at this point and

i've said it myself that

it would have been much easier to leave

a small contingent

of of troops to maintain stability in

afghanistan to provide that leadership

and guidance for the afghan military

but that's all hindsight what matters

now is is what we do going forward

joe biden talks about

strategic attacks

on

isis or

whatever

well how do you do that

how do you identify who's a civilian and

who's isis sure we've got cia we've got

intelligence but really

i mean there are so many

isis sympaths sympaths

in uh afghanistan same thing with the

taliban

i mean you're you're in a sea of of uh

if you put goggles on

that told you where your enemies are you

would just be in a sea of red because

you're just surrounded by

a taliban and

isis

and how do you distinguish between the

two

this is a really big

bad problem

you know suicide vests

cost like 100 bucks there's plenty of

bomb material too and these explosions

are huge

they're massive explosions there's no

surviving these explosions when uh when

you're near them and there are plenty of

crowds especially uh around evacuation

points where it's not difficult for

uh a bomber just to walk in the middle

of a crowd it's so devastating and

horrible

people are refugees being attacked

and really it's it what it is is it's a

symbol it's uh

it's a stake

of

america's failure

that's what this is these these bombings

the bombers it's not in my opinion at

least it's not like the bombers are in

afghanistan saying you know what let's

go kill innocent men women and children

at the gates of the airport

it's

let's

show

how nobody has control over our region

that's really what this is it's the

opportunity to prove

that there is no leadership in

afghanistan

that this entire country

in my opinion is subject to falling to

the whims of anarchy

leaderless

tribal warfare

between

uncoordinated taliban militants

and various different terrorist groups

like

afghanistan or isis k

in other words i believe

the united states will leave afghanistan

by the august 31st deadline which is

jack's birthday

my son's birthday

he turns six

and uh

the united states will leave

we might even start seeing evacuations

pause sooner we saw that happen with

norway norway has paused evacuations

already given the crisis at uh

maybe

there'll be ways for people to escape to

borders and and get through uh

you know the border too i mean i don't

know where you've got pakistan

uh iran maybe you could get out of the

northern borders so it's gonna be

difficult for the united states i feel

like to coordinate with iran i mean

maybe they can coordinate with pakistan

but

it's just a mess this is massive

instability now one place that people

are fleeing to which is an area

where actually one of my campaign

rallies an iranian individual uh

mentioned that a lot of people are

fleeing too and i don't know anything

more than

than this

but uh and then i did i i shouldn't say

that i did a tiny little bit of research

and it does appear

that

rebels are are preparing to fight

the

taliban

in pancheer

p-a-n-j

s-h-i ear punch here and that a lot of

people are trying to escape to punch

here

but otherwise this is just uh this is a

devastating disaster now right now on

twitter you have where's joe biden

trending

i imagine he's he's in a situation room

trying to figure out exactly what's

going on but but i don't know that

i really don't have faith that

our military knows right now exactly

what's going on and that's not to say

it's the military's fault it's not to

say that they're not capable

it's just to say that

how when you have rogue individuals

wearing suicide vests

it's not like there's a country you can

attack

what we have is just a complete lack of

stability in this region and it's going

to lead to massive tensions especially

coming from a nuclear armed or

potentially to be clear-armed iran

in pakistan india

it's a mess it's it's a big mess it's

devastating i'm devastated to see this

happen it's heartbreaking

and and i am concerned that over the

next

well through the end of the year

especially christmas time or

thanksgiving time we're going to go back

to what it felt like 13 years ago in

2007 and 8 where every day it was like

you had a new headline

50 more people died at a suicide bombing

in a church 100 more people died at a

school 50 people died at a soccer game

and that's when we were there

i'm just worried it's going to get even

worse now and at some point

this could turn into another

another

war uh certainly you've got china and uh

and and russia trying to build relations

with the taliban but

again what what kind of coordinated

effort and leadership do you really have

are they really capable of running a

government or are they going to get run

over

by isis

and then the weapons

that now we essentially armed the afghan

army with

go from us

to

the taliban to then isis

yeah here we go suicide bombers now id'd

as isis fighters

oh

man this is uh it's a sad day

august

26th all right folks well

thank you so much for watching and we'll

see you again next time thanks

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