madiha afzal works at brookings institute. were you able to find the twitter hanno -- twitter handle? guest: anyone who wants to look him up can. host: rochester, minnesota. democrat. good morning. caller: i was just wondering, the moneys that comes from our tax money and the people of this country. it does afghanistan, do they turn around and use that money to purchase their weapons from our country so the money takes you turn from our tax money back into the hands of the weapons? or does a bunch of that money go to relief of the afghan people to better their lives? i will get off and let you answer. thank you. guest: thank you for your question. the u.s. has supported the afghan security forces in every way. arms, money. it has supported the government. it supported development projects in afghanistan. all across the board, the military, the government and on the ground. there has been a great deal of support. sadly, we saw the afghan communities -- forces collapsed this week. there are reasons for that that are endemic to a

madiha afzal works at brookings institute.o find the twitter hanno -- twitter handle? guest: anyone who wants to look him up can. host: rochester, minnesota. democrat. good morning. caller: i was just wondering, the moneys that comes from our tax money and the people of this country. it does afghanistan, do they turn around and use that money to purchase their weapons from our country so the money takes you turn from our tax money back into the hands of the weapons? or does a bunch of that money go to relief of the afghan people to better their lives? i will get off and let you answer. thank you. guest: thank you for your question. the u.s. has supported the afghan security forces in every way. arms, money. it has supported the government. it supported development projects in afghanistan. all across the board, the military, the government and on the ground. there has been a great deal of support. sadly, we saw the afghan communities -- forces collapsed this week. there are reasons for that that are endemic to afghanistan. one

. - to doctor madiha afzal from the foreign policy programme at the think—tank, the brookings institutionsecondly _ handled all of this? president biden was secondly given _ handled all of this? president biden was secondly given a _ handled all of this? president biden was secondly given a flawed - handled all of this? president biden was secondly given a flawed peace l was secondly given a flawed peace deal and gave the taliban us withdrawal for very little in return but president biden had a choice to make when he came into power in january 2021. and i was with to abide by that peace deal and if he did he could have held the taliban responsible for the conditions that were imposed including cutting ties with al-qaeda which the taliban did not but president biden essentially throughout those condition oddities of the peace dear and doubt with an unconditional withdrawal in afghanistan and that unconditional withdrawal i would say has been the paved the way for afghanistan over the next two months because the unconditional withdrawal made it clear that the taliban had no incentives to co