Afghans are thronging to Kabul's airport, desperate to get on planes and leave the country.

Grasping at U.S. military aircraft and risking their lives, some hung onto the wheels and

fell to their death.

August 2021.

The military side is where the U.S. is staging an elaborate evacuation.

6,000 American troops being sent to the airport, they opened fire and killed some they considered

threats.

I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war.

It's time for American troops to come home.

And all of the government checkpoints, all of the police, all the soldiers, they're gone.

Just outside the airport, here's what the people are fleeing.

The Taliban have set up checkpoints across the Afghan capital, back in control, and showing

it with firepower.

The Taliban don't just control Kabul, but the whole country and all the weapons the

U.S. bought for the Afghan army.

I did not, and noted anyone else, see a collapse of an army that size in 11 days.

The country's president has fled.

The militants are much stronger now than 20 years ago when the U.S. drove them from power

when they sheltered Osama bin Laden.

Good afternoon.

On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist

training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

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