In the Media

Mar 14, 2023

The John Batchelor Show

The Afghanistan Failure Started Long before August 2021

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Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow

Husain Haqqani

Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. Once airborne, aircrew assigned to the U-28A Draco provided surveillance and reconnaissance of the ground situation at the airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Lt. Col. Scott Hardman)

Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)

Husain Haqqani appears on the John Batchelor Show to discuss what led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

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