Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., explains why he thinks President Biden’s speech Thursday represented a step in the right direction when it comes to Afghan allies.
that the U.S. will "continue to make sure that we take on the Afghan nationals who work side-by-side with U.S. forces," and that the U.S. has "already dramatically accelerated the procedure time for Special Immigrant Visas to bring them to the United States."
Host Shepard Smith also asked Moulton about whether or not he thinks the Taliban will take over Afghanistan once the U.S. withdraws completely from the country. Moulton said that the U.S. should be prepared, no matter the outcome. "Look, the bottom line is, we've got to be prepared for either eventuality, and one of the questions I'm going to be asking in detail, especially in classified sessions with the Armed Services Committee is, what contingency plans they have for the possibility that the Taliban does just simply overrun the Afghan government," Moulton said.if the Taliban takeover in the country is inevitable.
"The Afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force, against something like 75,000 Taliban," Biden said. "It is not inevitable." Moulton said that while he doesn't know that he has as much faith as Biden does in the Afghan security forces, he does think the president is correct in saying "we have provided them a lot of capacity."
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