00:00Is a taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable no it is not because you have the afghan troops have 300
00:10,000
00:12well equipped as well as equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like
00:1975,000 taliban it is not inevitable your own intelligence community has assessed that the
00:27afghan government will likely collapse that is not true is it can you please clarify what they have
00:33told you about whether that will happen or not that is not true they did not they did not reach
00:39that conclusion what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse the afghan
00:46government and leadership has to come together they clearly have the capacity to sustain the
00:55government in place the question is will they generate the kind of cohesion to do it it's
01:03not a question of whether they have the capacity they have the capacity they have the forces they
01:09have the equipment the question is will they do it i want to make clear what i made clear
01:14to ghani that we are not going to walk away and not sustain their ability to maintain that force
01:20we are we're going to also work to make sure we help them in terms of everything from food necessities
01:27and other things in in the region but but there is not a conclusion that in fact they cannot defeat
01:36the taliban i believe the only way there's going to be this is now joe biden not the intelligence
01:41community the only way there's only going to be peace and security in afghanistan is that they work out a
01:47modus lavendi with the taliban and they make a judgment as to how they can make peace
01:53and the likelihood there's going to be one unified government in afghanistan controlling the whole
01:58country is highly unlikely
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