the taliban are at the gates of the city president ashcroft. danny had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. we started the morning, not thinking that this was going to be the last day in cobble. honda. alamo, hip is national security advisor, one of us rough connie's closest confidence. he has bad news for the president. the afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. i had this hard to heart discussion with the military leaders. it was clear they didn't believe that was possible. the president in no, that's what his military leaders were thinking. the problem was nobody wanted to sound weak because if any military leader was heard to say or any political leader was hurt to say that this was not doable. it would immediately cala. but there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. now they are now jerry, one of the afghan government's top negotiators is scheduled to meet the taliban in doha. no, i was booked on a flight on sunday morning on the 15th. ah, to, to go to door. thanks. looked very normal. an officer opened the gates and h

in an interview earlier this month, the former president ashcroft danny rejected allegations that he had acted like a coward despite the fact that he fled cobble with suitcases stuffed with cash, his artes rachel, perhaps one year later, former president asher afghani is still defending his role in the swift fall of the afghan government days after the withdrawal of the u. s. military. he claims he was not afraid of the taliban even as he made the decision to flee the country. the reason i left was because i did not want to give the taliban and their supporters the pleasure of yet again humiliating in afghan president and making him sign over the legitimacy of the government. i have never been afraid. while he claims there was no fear of the taliban, the former president did express concern over the people who are supposed to be on his side and whether they would turn on him once the constant support they relied on from the u. s. came to an end, but other than the strategy of saving himself, it doesn't appear that connie had much of a planet all for a wife without us occupation. that