military forces from afghanistan. this is the sixth event in a series of committee engagements seeking to a success u.s. military 20 year mission in afghanistan. understand factors that led to the tolerance for takeover of the country and afghan forces, overseen dod operations afghan evacuees and recalibrate counterterrorism operations in light of emerging threats and broader national security priorities. joining us today, doctor colin powell and lieutenant general james mingus, director of operations joint staff. thank you for being here. there may be a tendency to focus on final months in afghanistan's, our withdrawal the summer in the event surrounding could not happen in a vacuum, lead to this outcome of catastrophic give it to iraq or failure to effectively grapple with support for the taliban. this is not a democrat or republican problem, please have manifested over four presidential of ministrations willingness to recognize and impact the operation of today and the future. one fundamental question that requires

troops had all but withdrawn from afghanistan, he was asked could there be a saigon moment in afghanistan, meaning you'd have an evacuation off the roof of the u.s. embassy and helicopters? biden was very dismissive of this. oh, man, no way, that could never happen. that's not going to happen. that's not what's going on. of course, a few weeks later, things actually looked worse than a helicopter off the roof of the embassy. you had images of u.s. air force c-17 transport plane with these afghans running down the runway trying to cling to it. the images were terrible. we ended up evacuating, helping to evacuate more than 100,000 people in just a few weeks. you know, i mean, yes, there are parallels to saigon and vietnam. certainly there are differences and different aspects of it, but the overall perception and the way we had to flee really while the enemy, meaning the taliban is taking over, those are strong parallels and those are images that are hard to get out of your head. >> i want to ask a couple more questions before i go to -- i'm looking at these very good questions from the aud

whether it's vietnam or iraq or afghanistan. in fact, president bush, president obama, president trump all say they would not engage in nationbuilding and yet they did, over 20 years. why? >> that's a a really good quen and i think one that our leaders haven't answered. there there was one interview in the afghanistan papers with a former navy seal made jeffrey eggers who worked at the white house on the nationals could he staff under bush and obama and he served in afghanistan, too, and he raised that same question. said why do we think we can transform societies like this? why do we take on these enormous tasks as a country? he said it really gets, is a question of human psychology. why do we think we can do this, accomplish these things? why don't we take a a step bak and question some of these basic assumptions? what were we thinking trying to transform not just create a new afghan government, new afghan institutions, but in some ways transform afghan society. yet this was a country that americans knew very little about goin

of lives in northern afghanistan and southern afghanistan. the taliban since 2015 have been fighting i.s. k. both sides have lost a lot of people in this war. that is going to continue, in my opinion. whether the taliban wants to use this as leverage or not, it depends very much on whether they think that they can get something out of the others. the others -- what is -- that is what they are looking for. the taliban would like access to the money that has been frozen. the international community is using that leverage. i don't think the taliban is losing terrorism as leverage or the fact that afghanistan has some enemy is going to produce much result at the state. knowing that they themselves are on shaky ground. >>former samad, the former afghan ambassador to france and canada, -- omar samad, the former afghan ambassador to france and canada, we appreciate your insights tonight. thank you. afghanistan's economy is unraveling. a looming humanitarian crisis is facing the country. nick connolly reports from the afghan capital. >>customers are

lessons from afghanistan. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials and questions for the record, subject to the rules. to insert something into the record, please have your staff email the previously mentioned address for contact full committee staff and keep your video function on at all times, even when you are not recognized by the chair. members are responsible for muting an un-muting themselves. remember to mute your mic yourself after you finish speaking. staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. they see we have a quorum and i will not recognize myself for opening remarks. again, thank you for joining us for today's hearing on afghanistan. and specifically the lessons that are -- that they hold for the nation's deponent programs. like many americans, i reacted to the events of august of this

development assistance in afghanistan. it is my hope that the committee continues holding hearings to discuss what went disastrously wrong with the u.s. withdrawal and what the future implications are for u.s. national security. almost $145 billion has been appropriated for afghanistan relief and reconstruction since 2002. and while many important gains were made during these years to support the people of afghanistan, especially to advance the rights of women and children, increasing their access to education and supporting civil society, there were also failures impossible to miss. the series of reports released by the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction on lessons learned from our 20-year mission offers important takeaways. in the aftermath of the botched withdrawal, however, we do need to seriously question why the biden administration did not heed those lessons, and we need to ask why and now our priorities seem to be misplaced. today it's clear what our number one priority should be, insuring the

>> the war in terror is not over and the war in afghanistan is not over. >> has the exit from afghanistan made the war more challenge for us or less challenging? with respect to continuing to try to protect the homeland and u.s. interests abroad. >> it's made it more challenging. >> an article published said the military lost 90% of the intelligence collection capability it is had using drones. do you agree with that? >> i didn't see the report. >> it said we have lost 90% of our intelligence collection capabilities it had using drones before the drawdown. >> i would have to look at the math. we are doing that right now to determine the level. it is significant, i don't know if it's 90%. >> on the sibs and folks stranded in afghanistan, is it fair to say that our human intelligence network given the current status and the fact that many were left behind, is it fair to say that's been stressed even more so than our drone sur lans capabilities. do we have much today? >> we can explain that in a classified session, but there's still yes. >> back to secretary austin, i think it's so important

forces in afghanistan? >> so, senator, these discussions were occurring in january, february, march. they're separate from the late august discussion, so i want to make that point clear. >> in your best military judgment, do you believe that the recommendations that general miller put forth was some 2500, and i think general milley said maybe up to 3500. do you believe that would have sown the seeds for ultimately having to send tens of thousands of u.s. service members back to afghanistan, as the president has said publicly? >> senator, i believe there was a risk you would incur increasing a tax by the taliban. that was a risk at holding at 2500. i'm really humbled recently by my ability to deduce what the taliban would or would not do, so i think it's hard to know. >> thank you. i'll get to my questions later about the people still stranded in afghanistan. thank you, mr. chair. >> i'm leaving for the vote. senator hirono will take over. senator warren. >> it's hard to look at afghanistan without viewing t

just threaten afghanistan. it threatens the broader region and as far as europe. so i think we're going to have to see some political movement with the taliban are very reluctant to do they they, they always loved to hold out and avoid compromise. but ultimately we're going to see some political movement and from the taliban side, some accommodation with the rest of afghan society. and these will be the key to opening up as security assistance and also broader economic assistance. so yeah, went, oh yeah, we're at the start the story, not the end of it at ashbrand. if a international security assistance is provided and what exactly what it entailed. you think here is a cleanser. if the international community goes on to support the taliban, isis will say taliban are the stooges of the americans and the western powers. and that will empower isis in his propaganda war to win over the youth, especially from other minorities that right now the taliban. the current government of the taliban has sidelined so there is

we have 0 presence in afghanistan. it could be as little as 12 months before al kato will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against the united states. frankly, after this debacle of withdrawal, i don't think any one can trust anything. this president says about afghanistan. we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we did not fully comprehend. the depth of corruption and poor leadership and her senior ranks. that we did not grasp the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. so after an entire war aimed to eliminate a terrorist threat to america, that threat could now be worse to real possibility in the not too distant future, 612182436 months that time the time frame for re constitution about kite are isis terrorist organizations seek ungoverned spaces so that they can train and equip and thrive.

those that are now in charge in afghanistan sees their takeover. the tale been ev at various times. brom is afghan citizens, including women, children, minority to communities, former government employees that they would protect their rights since all to those promises was the possibility of women to move to work and to enjoy their basic rights. and for girls will be effective, accessed through all levels of education, the same as boys gender equality is always been an absolute priority for me. and then my visits left gun is that i was deeply moved by the credit, the resilience and the thin me nation of afghan women and girls. i am. but the clearly alarm to see promise made to f than women and girls by the taliban be broken. broken promises leads to broken dreams for the women and girls of afghanistan. since 2000 and when's city 1000000 girls have enrolled in school and evidence schooling as increased from 6 ears took them. women and girls need to be the center of attention that ability to learn work own assets and to leave with rights and dignity

operations, afghanistan is land locked. we have no reliable partners on the ground, and we don't have any agreements with neighboring countries. secretary kahl, in the months since secretary austin, general milley, and general mckenzie testified, have we secured any basing agreements or arrangements with any country bordering afghanistan? secretary kahl: we have not secured firm basing arrangements. we have had extensive conversations. senator fischer: since president biden made the decision to withdraw in april, he's touted over-the-horizon c.t. operations as our strategy going forward. can you share with the committee any tangible steps the administration has made in trying to secure basing agreements with those countries, and keep it short, please, i have a number of questions. secretary kahl: sure. we've rainingments already in the gulf, as you -- we've rainingments already in the gulf, as you know. we have conversations with pakistan to keep the lines open. we have conversations with oou beck stan and -- uzbekistan and

all of afghanistan is safe. the taliban is beating up its presence on the border and promising a crackdown on corruption to ensure a smooth movement of people and goods. afghanistan has always struggled to build a mood and rail network that would link the country to its neighbors and expand trade with central asia. experts and imports have dramatically declined in recent weeks as the international community. once the taliban to implement political reforms form an inclusive government of face isolation, sh hundreds of laurie drivers are stuck at the border, waiting for clearance to cross into his pakistan. look, the business is bad traffic along the dairy was never interrupted. now it has been slowed by health, and i cannot bring the same amount of goods into country. the fall out from international isolation is felt across the country. will feed group is one of the biggest names in the agriculture industry in afghanistan. the company extracts oil from seeds, a thriving business that also extends to animal feed.

there is no more time left to reach the people of afghanistan. it cannot wait while the world debates whether or not to recognise a taliban government. nearby, aid agencies hand out parcels that might save some children from hunger. alone, they can't provide for the staggering needs. giving the taliban money without guarantees on human rights and how the funds will be used is dangerous. but afghanistan is sinking fast. millions here will not survive the winter. yogita limaye, bbc news, herat. 0ur afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is in kabul. when we look at these horrific problems that we've been reporting on tonight, what will it take for the taliban to be able to attract back some of the funding and the aid that it has lost in recent months? well, some humanitarian aid is still continuing into afghanistan, but given the scale of the crisis right now, it is simply not enough. but afghanistan's economy, including the vast majority of public spending on things like healthcare, teachers�* salaries, all of that was deeply dependent on in

afghanistan strategy. they played significant roles throughout this war and i hope you are forthcoming in your answers today. i would ask you provide an accounting of the television though the key assessments that factored into the viability of the afghan government and forces and how those trends changed over time. i'd like to know any lessons you identified or how we can work with and through forces in the future. additionally i would like aato understand what factors you contribute to the tower bands success and whether we missed indicators and warnings . finally while we have trance for it our military from afghanistan after largely achieved dark factors we must in short afghanistan can never againbe used for a base for terrorist groups to conduct operations against the us and our allies . we must be sure we establish aneffective, counterterrorism architecture moving forward . nsto that and i would ask you update the committee on your plans for counterterrorism operations. the united states is facing e

and people of afghanistan and women in afghanistan in the last 20 years had still exposure to the outside world to better education and suddenly, overnight, that right is taken from them. learning of your personal experience is important, and it obviously lends a great deal of weight to your suspicion of the taliban and their promises. on the other hand, i'm also very aware that your husband, abdul matin bek, he, like you, was a very successful and senior figure in the ashraf ghani government going back the last few years, and he actuallyjoined the negotiating team that was prepared over the last 18 months to talk to the taliban and clearly believed that there was some worth in reaching out to the taliban and treating them seriously as potential political players in the future of afghanistan. so why are you now telling me that you absolutely rule out talking to them, working with them when your own husband was actually in a dialogue with them? look, erm... i did not say rule out to...to talk to them. but you wouldn't even take their zoom call. look, because in the current position, i am,

no one told us we are going to go to afghanistan and be there 50 years and remake afghanistan and incur 20 casualties a year for the latter 40 of the 50 years. they told us we were winning and creating something so i don't know whether american is incapable of doing what they did maintain offensive force along the river for hundreds of years. i don't know whether we are incapable of doing that because of our people or our leaders. there should have been a better plan for withdrawal in response to my questions demonstrating there was no trump plan. he's had the administration currently inherited a deadline, it did not inherit a plan. now the general testified as if they had a plan for an effective withdrawal but has pointed out, it wasn't there withdrawal plan, it was a plan to stay there with at least 2500 of our forces released -- but perhaps 25 years. when you leave the 500, that means they get in trouble you have to be prepared to deploy more. historians will argue perhaps we should have stayed in afghanistan. the last ten years we were there, the cost of casualties or 1% of what we

troops in afghanistan? the current administration is insisting they are disappointed to see us leave. is this an assessment that measures with reality in your opinion? >> i think beijing and moscow will fill the boy in central easia and the time not qualified to talk about the strategic -- but you can see what the china pakistan economic quarter and the solidification of that servile relationship with the pakistanis. that's going to carry over a think into central asia with an eye towards afghanistan and is connected to the frontier in mongolia as part of the road initiative to gain a position of predominant requiring power plus the eurasian landmass frankly. russia has been the source of fighting to the taliban. you have more information about that than i do. so is china and in the rush to accommodate the taliban weight gain strategic advantage. this is handy as well so the idea that disengaging from afghanistan makes us more competitive with china makes no sense at all because these other regions includin

but our exit from afghanistan was a disaster. and the missteps that are already outlined had consequences that struck close to home. as an a nebraskaen, corpsal dagen paige was one of the 13 service members killed in actio dagen paige was one of the 13 service members killed in action. global credibility with allies and partners would suffer and the narrative of abandoning the afghans would and a narrative of abandoning the afghans would become widespread. currently happening? >> i think in the main, yes senator, most of those are probably happening right now. >> and i hope that we see in the future military advise having more consideration by the administration on what will happen from what you and general mckenzie have said today. >> if i may, senator. i can tell you with 100% certainty the military voice was heard. and it was considered. >> it was considered but not followed. correct? >> we have -- presidents are elected for reasons. they make strategic decisions -- >> i would say this committee, general, has always stressed t

afghanistan is not the afghanistan of the 1990's. i would hope 20 years of education has empowered and changed the people of afghanistan. again, i would hope that people just don't rollover, even given the brutality of the taliban. what can we do to support the people of afghanistan in trying to come up with a better outcome? >> congressman, i would like to weigh in on that. i thing we see in the next year, so the most immediate challenge here will be the humanitarian crisis, which may happen with or without the taliban taking power, but the combination of financial resources, lack of financial resources, a largely unvaccinated population against covid, so health concerns. there's a major drought that's been playing out over several years, so food security is at an all-time low, combined the fact that we have a taliban government, this transition government, that does not know how to govern. i mean, we know how to fight. they have proven themselves effective in that, but they do not know how to govern, so incompetence and lack of exp

because the women, the 18 million women of afghanistan, are not dead, and 18 million women of afghanistan, they really need voice. and i will be that for as long as i can. and i would love to sit down with them and talk to them. i would really love to. >> narrator: while najibullah was at her office, a visitor came in seeking help. she was concerned her granddaughter had been abdted by the taliban. (phone ringing) >> (speaking dari): >> (speaking dari): >> (speaking dari): >> (speaking dari): >> narrator: she told najibullah that her granddaughter had been hoping to leave the country before the taliban took over. >> (speaking dari): >> (speaking dari): >> (speaking dari): >> you can't do anything? >> no, nothing. what am i supposed to do? >> narrator: she was worried the woman would be out after dark and encouraged her to stay home. >> (speaking dari): >> i cannot protect her, najibullah! i cannot protect any woman. >> in the previous regime, you had power? you could have do something? before the taliban, if... >> yeah! >> if somebody had such problem? >> yeah, of course! i could have cal

afghanistan. this is the sixth even in a series of committee engagements isaac to assess the u.s. military's 20 year mission in afghanistan. understand factors that led to the taliban a rapid takeover of the country on its last day of forces, oversee dod operations before the fat-- afghan evacuees and operations in light of emergency threats. joining us today are doctor collins, under secretary of defense for policy lieutenant general james mingus director for operation joint staff. thank you both for being here appear i know there may be a tendency to focus on our final months in afghanistan and i was stressed that our withdrawal was somewhere in the event surrounding did not happen in a vacuum. a path that led to-- years of mistakes primary catastrophic pivot to iraq or our failure to grapple with support for the taliban. this is not a democratic or republican problem, these failures have manifested over four presidential administrations with both parties and our willingness to recognize and cor

it's stake to the people of afghanistan. oh, wow. and st. clashes, block ports, and strike action resistance to the italian government's introduction of monday. treat cobra passes for all workers in the country. stepped south. ah, 247 news and views live from moscow. this is our t pleasure. the have your company this our, my name's unit. we begin in the u. k. where a conservative m p has been stamped to death while meeting with his constituents in the southeast county of essex. a suspect has been arrested ortiz, shantia edwards, dost reports from lee? were the tragedy to place well conservative and he said david amos has died following a multiple, stopping this afternoon during a constituency surgery meeting out the methodist church directly behind me here in south. and what exactly that is. it's an opportunity the members of the public to meet with the local m p face to face and discuss local political issues. but around midday this afternoon, a young man ran into the building wielding a knife before attacking the veteran politician

so many foreigners have left afghanistan after the us withdrawal in august. but some aid workers and journalists remain, steph deka is in cobble the americans and the british warning against stop people staying away from hotels in the capital, one particular hotel. and was mentioned as, you know, having a real security threat against. we've heard about this in the last 48 hours or so. the taliban is taking it seriously. they beat dr. curt security also using their special forces to cordon off certain roads using sniper locations. the telephone's main card that they played was that they could maintain security in this country, that they were the only ones to be able to maintain security in this country. what we're seeing recently in the last, especially 10 days or so is an escalation, a step up by i so okay, that is the afghanistan branch of iso in terms of attacks. they started more until about in the east of the country than they attacked a mosque here in a cobble just last sunday, and significant breach of security there. because you had senior members of t

but for afghanistan. my fear is for afghanistan. mahboubah seraj was offered a flight out of the country, but has chosen to stay. the face of this town has changed. there used to be women walking around the streets of kabul, there used to be a feeling that, you know, we are all the citizens of the same country, and we are in this city, men and women. but now it's no longer that. she's waiting to see if the taliban will keep their promise to be more moderate this time round. if they really have changed, they have to prove it. i am here in afghanistan, i want to tell them, and i'm not going anywhere. i'm sitting right here. because the women, the 18 million women of afghanistan, are not dead, and 18 million women of afghanistan, they really need a voice. the interview is interrupted by a woman asking for help. we agreed to hide her identity because her grand—daughter has gone missing. the woman says her grand—daughter had been hoping to leave the country before the taliban took control. it's getting late, so mahbouba tells the wom

forces in afghanistan? >> so, senator, these discussions were occurring in january, february, march. i want to make that point. >> but in your best military judgement, do you believe that the recommendations that general miller put forth was some 2500 and i think general milley said maybe up to 3500. do you believe that would have sewn the seeds for ultimately having to send tens of thousands of u.s. service members back to afghanistan? as the president said publicly? >> senator, i believe there was a risk you would incur increasing attacks by the taliban. that was a risk withholding at 2500. that was a very clear risk. i'll tell you, senator, i'm humbled by my ability to deduce what the taliban would or would not do. i think it is hard to know. >> senator war snen is. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to begin by zooming out. it is not possible to understand our final months in afghanistan without viewing them in the context of the 20 years that led up to them. in 2015 the taliban conquered the first prob

withdrew from afghanistan. there are still american citizens trying to get home to safety, still behind enemy lines. with no u.s. presence on the ground, what mechanism are you using to ensure the safety of americans that the biden administration but behind in afghanistan? brian mckeon: we're working every day to try to bring out the americans who wish to depart. we are working with a couple of airline companies that are willing to go into kabul airport, to bring people out on chartered aircraft. those -- there is no commercial air service right now to kabul airport. we expect to go this week to bring out several dozen americans. >> several dozen. why do you believe all americans who want to leave afghanistan will be able? brian mckeon: the number of people ready to depart is over 200, at the current pace, if we continue to have success with chartered flights, all the people who say they are ready to depart will be offered an opportunity in the next couple of weeks. >> we have american still trapped in afghanis

development assistance in afghanistan. it's my hope the committee continues holding hearings to discuss i what went disastrously wrong with u.s. withdrawal and what the future implications are for u.s. national security. almost $145 billion has been i appropriated for afghanistan relief and reconstruction since 2002 while many unborn themes were made, especially to advance women and children increasing access to education and supporting civiln, society, thee were also failures impossible to miss. series of reports released by special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction are lessons learned from 20 year mission offering important takeaways and thean aftermath of the botched f withdrawal, we do need to seriously question wife the biden administration took nott see those and we need to ak why even now our priorities seem to be misplaced. today it's clear what our number one priorities should be ensuring the safety andy securiy of u.s. citizens. lawful permanent residence and at risk afghans whoho supported u.s. po

certainly it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan. well in fact, as trumps feel, the date of a withdrawal was made the 1st you don't think that makes any difference. now look i, i think all by and did was extended a couple months and it showed how, how little planning had been done, either by the trump administration or by for the execution to withdraw itself. and i should note my own polling on this subject. i think of firms what other people have observed that while at the beginning, many people said the withdrawal itself was executed poorly and no question about that. but it's caused them to rethink the consequences. the withdrawal itself, the return of taliban to power, the greater risk of terrorist attack, obviously calls into question the legitimacy of withdrawal a decision. fundamentally, i think people now realize we are less secure after the withdrawal than we were before the withdrawal. you said that abiding, changed in that answer in a way. what do you, i mean, he said, when he was helping to confirm you at the state depart

and after the pull out in afghanistan, so what is the nicest fraction doing in afghanistan, but playing a disruptive role, you just had all the wiggers as escaping from prison, magically after the u. s. withdrew you have all these other isis militants who were somehow simultaneously escaped from prison? i'm sure there they had assistance in that. so that's the major jihad jailbreak that you saw right before the emergence of isis in july of 2014. so i see of this repeating pattern that's forming right now. and so the, like you said, the u. s. doesn't need to be in afghanistan, militarily, like marcus said, and they, there's other things that they can do to direct the affairs in the region. it sounds like mark, as it sounds like to me is that, you know, in western historical conference. we go from this state to this state here. but any given what we've already said here on our program, is it, this is just the continuation of the civil war just in a different direction with different people with different names because it sounds like what this is, what's going on right here. go ahead. yes.

military mission inun afghanistan. i believe i speak for the entire committee we express our gratitude to those in their families who would sacrifice so much over those last 20 years. we owe them a debt that cannot be repaid. i agreed and continued to agree with the decision that was made to end our military presence in afghanistan. it was the right decision. our larger and to help build a government in afghanistan could cover effectively and defeat the taliban had failed. more money and more lost american lives were not going to change that. the events we witnessed in afghanistan in the wake of the collapse of the afghan government and august happen primarily because of this reality because the fundamental reality that our mission to try to stand up a government in place of the taliban had failed. that reality is what caused tthe overwhelming majority of the problems we faced. there is no easy or safe way to get everyone out of that country, we wanted to get out. yet in the face of that are military conducted the larg

sivs are not unique to afghanistan. people working with us, human intelligence on the ground, keeping our forces safe is something that's standard operating procedure in a lot of dangerous areas. i hope we recognize that we owe it to the people in afghanistan, but we owe it to our people in uniform to get it right. thank you. >> thank you, senator tillis. let me recognize senator warren. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general milley, our military executed a massive operation during the month of august. as i understand it, it was larger than the berlin airlift. for the record, can you just tell us how many americans you evacuated? >> almost 6,000. i can get you a precise number for the record, but about 6,000 >> let's get the right number for the record, but that's helpful. and how many did the u.s. in totally coalition forces evacuate? >> 124,000, totally 44,000 on non u.s. aircraft, the rest on u.s. aircraft. >> an extraordinary effort, but still it's hard to get everyone. >> largest airlift in history. >> right. hard to

afghanistan on the agenda at this virtual g20 meeting led by italy. prime minister mario draghi warned of a humanitarian disaster. >> that humanitarian emergency that is unfolding is very serious. many people and representatives of international organizations and the united nations have told of humanitarian emergency and with the onset of winter, the situation will get much worse. reporter: in kabul, hardly anyone has any money. >> since the arrival of the islamic emirate, i believe all our colleagues have been employed. meanwhile, our salaries have not been paid by the government. my request to the government of the islamic emirate of afghanistan is to pay as first, because the people live in poverty. reporter: and paid salaries, no jobs. a country that has a severe cash flow problem, hugely dependent on international aid that is now being withheld. there is a growing security problem, too, with isis and afghanistan increasing its attacks. we met with the manager of kabul security, he says afghanistan is capable of handling the threat. >> if isis is