成人快手

It is now a year on since the abrupt departure of the last American and Nato forces from Afghanistan. Their leaving saw lightning advances by Taliban troops, the collapse of the government and a desperate scramble by hundreds of thousands of Afghans to get out of the country. Most were unable to get on evacuation flights.聽Now the Taliban are back in charge, girls haven't been able to go back to school, many women are unable to work and the economy has almost collapsed as international lifelines have dried up.聽

Karl Eikenberry served two tours of duty in Afghanistan - his second as the commander of combined forces from 2005 to 2007.聽 In 2009, he returned as the US ambassador in Kabul.聽He gives his opinion on whether he thought it was a mistake for American troops to pull out of Kabul.

He told Newshour: "This rather sudden and abrupt departure... the military execution was flawed, I would not have liked to be the commander of the military forces."

"An army is only going to be as good as the political system that underpins it... You had a very corrupt, dysfunctional political system. That system did not have the support of the people, and therefore the army of Afghanistan, it was not an army of the Afghan people."

(Photo: Karl Eikenberry Credit: Win McNamee via Getty Images)

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