What is Happening in Afghanistan?

melt away: (점차적으로) 해산하다
The Afghan national forces, the government forces just melted away…

noncombatant evacuation operation: 비전투원 후송작전
Now what we’re doing is what’s called noncombatant evacuation operation…

fundamentalist: 근본주의, 원리주의
The Taliban is actually very fundamentalist Sunni Islamic group…

tribal: 부족의, 종족의
It’s a rough grouping of a lot of tribal elements around Afghanistan.

tide: 흐름
And that we can’t really stop the tide of where the Taliban and where Afghanistan is going.

pull out: 빠져나오다, 손을 떼다
So we are pulling out.