'We should welcome anyone who wants to come': Last night's late night hosts tried to unpack the role the U.S. played in the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
devoted his entire opening monologue to the dire events in Afghanistan, attempting to mine humor from a situation he could only describe as “heartbreaking.”
Colbert acknowledged the reticence that, until recently, most of us have felt about discussing the war. “For the last 10 years no one has wanted to talk about Afghanistan,” he said, including himself in that indictment—displaying a "sizzle reel" of all the times he's discussed the war in Afghanistan on his program that amounted to nothing more than a tumbleweed rolling across an empty stage.
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