Evening Edition: The United States Military Steps Up Evacuations

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The United States military says the past twenty four hours has had the most evacuations from Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country with nearly thirty flights carrying over ten thousand people out of the country. But violence has continued to stop many from reaching the airport in Kabul and President Biden has said he has not ruled out staying longer than the August 31st withdrawal date. FOX's Eben Brown speaks to retired Marine Lt. Col. Jonathon Myers who is helping facilitate the evacuation of Afghans who helped our military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.5	Monday, August 23rd, 2021, I'm Eben Brown.
0:28.5	As hands continue to ring over the botched U.S. exit from Afghanistan in which thousands of people are looking for help in
0:35.2	fleeing a resurging Taliban, one retired Marine is trying to help as many as he can.
0:41.2	Deep down, I'm embarrassed.
0:43.0	I'm embarrassed for our country that we didn't learn the lessons of our past from Vietnam or
0:49.1	Somalia or anywhere where we went in and made a commitment to the people and left.
0:54.0	How many times do we have to learn this lesson?
0:56.0	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
1:00.0	For a week now, Americans have been watching an abrupt retreat by U.S. forces from Afghanistan
1:10.1	only to try to figure out a plan to not just evacuate American civilians, but Afghans
1:15.6	and others who aided the American efforts there for two decades and who now consider themselves
1:21.2	marked for death by the Taliban once again in power.
1:25.0	The apparent lack of U.S. policy strategy or American leadership has prompted other nations
1:29.7	to take in fleeing families, but one retired U.S. Marine is trying to rally help for the very people
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