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Afghanistan and the White House
On August 11th the media reported that one US official admitted Afghanistan could follow the Taliban within 90 days. The Pentagon announced the deployment of three thousand US troops immediately to evacuate diplomatic personnel from the US embassy in Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country hauling possibly close to 170 million dollars with him we later learned and the Afghan government collapsed Afghans just start moving fast and you just move tooFast forward a little bit on August 12th the Taliban was taking over so quickly they now faced no resistance but it wasn't transpiring as planned.