The Taliban, toppled by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, are already back in power, sweeping aside the Washington-backed Afghan government
The U.S. hit back with a drone strike against what it said was an Islamic State Khorasan group, or ISIS-K, target that posed an "imminent threat" to the airport. It said it was looking into reports the strike also resulted in civilian casualties.
"We cannot airlift an entire country to safety. This is the moment where diplomacy has to step up," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a briefing Monday. The U.S. plowed hundreds of billions of dollars attempting to rebuild this failed state: inculcating a democracy, retooling its military and reforming social norms such as allowing girls to be educated and women to be able to work outside the home — something banned by the Taliban., something some experts have blamed in part for the U.S.-funded Afghan army's crumbling in the face of the Taliban this month.
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