President Biden says he has no regrets about the Afghanistan collapse and his botched strategy.

And our military leaders say we have no capacity to rescue Americans in Afghanistan.

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All righty. So the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. There's now video of

Clarissa Ward from CNN trying to walk the gauntlet from Kabul, just the main area of the city,

into the airport, and the Taliban stopping her, threatening her crew. As she says, it's nearly

impossible for any normal Afghan to use their papers to get out of the country. At this point,

meanwhile, some 10 to 15,000 Americans remain stranded in Kabul at this point. According to eyewitnesses,

this is Sky News reporting. Desperate women in Kabul are attempting to throw their babies over the

razor wire to American soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Saigon in which people are trying to get the

hell out of the country before the Taliban come in. For all the people out there who keep saying

things like, well, you know, the people in Afghanistan, they're just going back to what they know. Remember, the average age, the average age in Afghanistan, the median age, rather. The median age is 18.4 years old. The United States has been occupying Afghanistan since 2001, 20 years. So the average person in Afghanistan actually does not remember Taliban rule.

The average person in Afghanistan has been living in a country occupied by the United States

with a nascent democracy for their entire lifetime. And this is particularly true for young

women who are now going to be subjected to sex slavery and abuse. That is the next move for young

women all over the country, but particularly in the major cities,

which were, again, a lot more urban and a lot more controlled by the central government than the

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