President Biden had set August 31st as the last day for US troops to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of war and the deadline had caught the world by surprise. And we did,' he told reporters on August 20, 2021, as American and allied forces hastily prepared to pull out of the country. 'We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as getting Osama bin Laden. On Monday, we learned that clearly was not the case. One year ago this month, President Biden told Americans that Al Qaeda was 'gone' from Afghanistan. From 1991 to 1997, Roggio served as a signalman and infantryman in the US Army and New Jersey National Guard 16, 9:30 a.m.Bill Roggio is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of FDD's Long War Journal. (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) Saturday, Sept. Indian cinema can and should aim for big things. But when a movie aspires to change the world and seriously engage contemporary events, such failings are all the more egregious. If a film’s ambitions are meagre, it’s possible to forgive wretched dialogue and paper-thin characterizations. Linda Arsenio (the American journalist) is embarrassingly wooden And despite the film’s attempts to humanize the hijacker, he remains laughably cartoonish (Jean Reno meets Christopher Lloyd). Its dialogue is some of the most leaden I’ve heard in years. So why is it so bad? Let me count the ways: Its saccharine sentimentality is stomach-turning. The Taliban hijacker, for example, turns out to be a really lovely (if surly) Pakistani military man who loves Bollywood songs and cricket. A myriad of absurd turns and hiccups ensue, all of which results in everyone shedding their respective prejudices.

Their search for Taliban leads to their eventual kidnapping and forced drive-along with their Afghan driver and a dogged American photojournalist-to the Pakistani border.

It tells the story of two neophyte Indian journalists ( Water’s John Abraham and Arshad Warsi) who touch down outside of Kabul just after American forces have flooded into Afghanistan. While it’s still too early to make a definitive call, my early vote goes to Kabir Khan’s Kabul Express, an awkward monstrosity of a film produced by legendary Bollywood director Aditya Chopra. As fun as it is to sit around and speculate about the best films in this year’s festival, it’s just as pleasurable (if not more) to pick the worst.

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