Sgt. Nicole Gee, holding an Afghan child shortly before she was killed in the suicide bombing at Kabul’s Abbey Gate. Aug. 15 marked two years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after a nearly two-decade war.
For James Hasson, co-author of Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End and an Afghanistan veteran, seeing the Taliban takeover “was a punch in the gut.”
“And I know for at least all the other Afghan veterans that I’ve spoken to, it was a similar punch in the gut for them, as well,” says Hasson, who rose to the rank of Army captain. “And especially then seeing the [Biden] administration repeatedly say that, ‘The Taliban were now our partners,’ that they were being ‘businesslike and professional,’ when of course this is the same Taliban that we just spent 20 years fighting.”
“I lost people I […]
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