Americas Miscalculations, Afghanistans Collapse

Published: Aug. 17, 2021, 9:45 a.m.

The last few days in Afghanistan have been chaotic as the Taliban retake control of the country.\n\nThe debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country this year after two decades of war.\n\nHow could those assumptions have proved so wrong, so quickly?\n\nGuest: David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.