Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story

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S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens from Kabul airport after the Taliban seized the city.

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I mean, there was a little bit in the sense of—you know, of current employees of embassies, for instance, or for—of the U. Features never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U. You could be tasked with trying to maintain a semblance of control as the walls are closing in, as expressed by several marines whose mission is to hold the airport as Afghan citizens beg for an escape.And then the Marines—as you see in the film, we have a hundred and fifty of Richardella and his men, and then as days go on more managed to get in.

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So this isn’t new—a lack of engagement by the American public, particularly with the war in Afghanistan. We really wanted to represent them and we wanted to do it openly, so you could see their faces, so you could see them as humans, that was the whole point of the film,” said Roberts. But so, really, I mean, yeah, I hope—I’ve done a film about Afghan children leaving Afghanistan before. But they don’t know what’s going to happen and I wondered if you thought that there was—there could have been another path—there could have been another way to talk to them early to deal with this issue of how they were going to treat women.

As the Taliban went door to door to execute ‘collaborators’, a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible. So the American Civil War, the construct was, if you look, the blood—the first ever draft in the United States comes out of the American Civil War.

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It was the largest airlift in US modern history, which despite the chaos and suffering, rescued 124,000 people.Did you have any sense from them that they are different, a different ideology, that there are still—obviously, there is somebody who—I mean, they just closed down a bunch of schools again, I think, last week. But there are also the longer-term dynamics that are important and, you know, to briefly summarize those, for twenty years the U. The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. S. Marines, who were right there in the gates, the Taliban, and then the evacuees who got out and the evacuees who tried to get out. They are not engaging in a transaction with the United States or the international community whereby if you provide certain number of dollars of support they’re going to change their views about girls’ education or about having a more inclusive, much less a more democratic form of governance, in the country.