#Afghanistan: Seeking answers to the failure in Kabul, August 2021. Bill Roggio, FDD @Longwarjournal
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#Afghanistan: Seeking answers to the failure in Kabul, August 2021. Bill Roggio, FDD @Longwarjournal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/14/politics/mccaul-afghanistan-withdrawal-investigation-interviews?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Batch with my colleague Bill Raggio, the foundation |
| 0:09.2 | for the defensive democracy listening to Ambassador Hakane speak of the extensive disorder |
| 0:16.7 | in Pakistan. The immediate question is what does it mean for Afghanistan, the Taliban, |
| 0:21.9 | for the people of Afghanistan? Bill is, are these two countries still in-middle involved |
| 0:28.2 | in smuggling and bad acting and is a disordered Pakistan in any way significant to Kabul? |
| 0:35.3 | Yes, John. The instability in Pakistan has significant implications for the region. Not |
| 0:44.1 | just Afghanistan. I would expect terror activity in Afghanistan to continue, but under the |
| 0:51.1 | cover as the Pakistani military, look, it holds itself up as the defender of Pakistan, |
| 0:59.1 | particularly against India. So what I'm going to expect the Pakistani military to do would be |
| 1:04.6 | to get its foroxys, last-carry, Tiba, Harkat, Bulgur, Zadin, all of these groups that are operating |
| 1:11.5 | in Afghanistan that have safe aid in charter training camps and whatnot that are still operating |
| 1:18.8 | inside of Afghanistan, the State Department designation from years ago, |
| 1:23.1 | detailed particularly the Harkat al-Muja deans operations in Afghanistan and training camps |
| 1:27.8 | operating there. I would expect the operations in India to, particularly in Jammu and Taj |
| 1:33.6 | here, to increase as possible as Pakistan points to deflect from its internal and skilled |
| 1:40.0 | disabilities. It may seek to get the attention of the Pakistani people outward and create a threat. |
| 1:48.8 | Against the Indian, of course, Afghanistan plays a role in that. I would expect the Pakistani |
| 1:54.8 | the Pakistani military's relations with the Taliban to remain strong. Again, |
| 1:59.2 | Afghanistan is the strategic death threats with term used in Pakistan, again, India. |
| 2:05.6 | And then, you know, the question can be, Pakistan or the Taliban itself though, I don't expect |
| 2:14.0 | military operations against China emanating from inside Afghanistan to increase because the |
| 2:21.6 | Taliban wants to develop relations with countries like China, particularly China, where it can |
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