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Collapsed so precipitously. this rapid collapse laid bear a fundamental fact. that successive administrations lied to congress over the years about the durability of afghan military institutions and we need to understand why. the chaos of last august is due in large part to the february 2020 surrender deal negotiated by president trump. a deal that was clearly built on a set of lies. a deal that led to the release of 5,000 hardened taliban fighters. boosting the militant group on the the battlef...

Couple of things. one is, we defeated the taliban with a handful of special forces on horseback with northern alliance fighters issue but with u.s. air cover. two, had the u.s. air cover been there for the afghan forces, perhaps they wouldnt have thrown down their arms and let the taliban take over. lastly, there was a lot of effort to say a number of administrations dealt with this and that is true, a lot of mistakes. this is kind of like the game old maid, the card game, we have many bad hands...

Could exploit. the europeans, allies, who had very say or control over the timing and execution of all this, they are now have to be wondering about our reliability, the credibility of our defense agreements with them but also have to be really upset at the prospects of a massive refugee crisis landing right on their borders here very soon. in india, i know announcement there will be a meeting of the quad fairly soon, a good development if youre india you look at this and saying if the united st...

Think our allies, they are now number one, have to be wondering about our reliability, the credibility of our defense agreements with them, and they also have to be really, really upset at the prospect of a massive refugee crisis landing right on their borders here soon. india, and i know there was an announcement today there will be a meeting of the quad, and if you are india, you are looking at this and saying if the united states allowed pakistan to unravel their standing, because the pakista...

But it is important that we go back and look at all this. >> time has expired. >> thank you. >> senator sidney. >> thank you, mr. chairman and secretary blinken for appearing before the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges of the evacuation, and over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the talibans treatment of women and girls and other minorities, and i also agree with your assessment and that has been given by several o...

For when _ needed? what will be threshold speed for when they kick in? and what sort of patchwork will be and up with a crossing _ of patchwork will be and up with a crossing then? there will be a different — crossing then? there will be a different patchwork across the uk because _ different patchwork across the uk because of the different devolved administrations getting to implement versions— administrations getting to implement versions of their own plans. we are expecting _ versions of ...

Heres our state department correspondent barbara plett usher with the latest from washington: well, democrats accepted that. some allowed that the operation couldve been handled better, others ask questions about the chaotic evacuation and those left behind. but they also criticised president trump and argued that it was an issue of a 20—year failure of war, notjust the failure of one administration. republicans by and large rejected it — one of them did say that both the biden and the trump...

So i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons wa...

Back and look at all of this. >> the time has expired. >> thank you. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you secretary blinken for appearing for the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges with the evacuation, over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the taliban treatment of women and girls and other mine oorities and i also agree that assessment and given by several others that where we were when we go...

Government and military collapsed so precipitously. this rapid collapse laid bare a fundamental fact, that successive administrations lied to the congress over the years about the durability of afghan military and governing institutions and we need to understand why. the chaos of last august is due if large part to the february 2020 surrender deal negotiated by president trump. a deal that was clearly built on a set of lies. a deal that led to the release of 5,000 hardened taliban fighters boost...