A security expert dives into how the U.S. failure in intelligence and diplomacy ultimately led to the Taliban takeover and the vacuum, which has enabled Washington's top adversaries to step in.
The massive intelligence failure in the lead up to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan not only led to a chaotic evacuation, the death of 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghans, as well as the complete Taliban takeover – it created a security vacuum that U.S. adversaries are taking advantage of. The U.S.
We don't understand that when we turn our back to Afghanistan, and we just want to close the door and move on…we are leaving a vacuum there,' Michael Rubin, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and expert on security issues in the Middle East and South Asia, told Fox News Digital. 'Someone else is going to fill it.' While no nation has officially recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, some nations, including the U.S.
The Taliban were running roughshod over us, and our intelligence wasn't picking up a thing,' Rubin said. 'We were looking at Afghanistan through the lens of idealism and ideology. Here we were building a democracy. From an Afghan point of view, they were looking at it through the lens of survival.
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