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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, August 16th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what we're

covering today. The Haitian diaspora rushes to help after a deadly earthquake. Plus, approaching

another COVID milestone we didn't want. But first, the Taliban take over of Afghanistan is today's

one big thing. The Taliban have declared victory in Afghanistan this morning. The group took control

of Kabul yesterday, 20 years after they had been run out of the capital city by U.S.-led forces.

President Biden has authorized sending 5,000 troops to Afghanistan to help with the evacuation.

And America is waking up to scenes of utter chaos at the airport in Kabul, where

Reuters are reporting five people have been killed as thousands there tried to flee the country,

especially those who worked with American and other forces. Axios co-founder Mike Allen joins us

now with the latest and the big picture. Hi, Mike. Good morning, Nyla. Mike, what does this lightening

advance by the Taliban say about America's longest war in Afghanistan? Now, this is a massive

system failure. It's a failure of intelligence. Just days ago, the Biden administration was convinced

that they had at least till the end of the month to get people out who'd helped America. I had a friend

who spent more than a decade as U.S. official in Afghanistan and Iraq. And he texted me yesterday

and he said, this collapse shows that we miss something fundamental, something systemic in our

intel, military, diplomatic service over the decades, deeper than a single horrible decision. So,

this is Washington not listening to the ground. This is the West Wing not listening to the Pentagon.

This is lots of people not listening with the astonishing wind shear in the security situation

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