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Very bad night and saying, how did you guys do this? how did you go out there and do the mission? and being taken aback at how brave and patriotic they were. and to know. security forces sacrificed year after year. this june alone, more than 700 afghan military and security forces died in defense of their country. >> to that point, that kind of leads us back to one of our audience questions. this is a question from leasa and ashley who wrote, i want to know why weve been lied to for decades by m...

Our vital national interest at this point? when we look at this, i think the ending was -- is really tragic. its horrible to see the humanitarian chaos there and the fear, and naturally, we wish we could do something to alleviate it. and i hope the presence of our troops will provide some bit of stability there. i hope we will be able to get out the after begans who worked with us that we have a sense of obligation toward. but we have to understand that we have other competing national interests...

Situation in afghanistan. >> its no doubt that the idea that was turning the corner that doing better, that the taliban are on the run. was wrong. and i think these administrations work under the shadow of 9/11 where presidents, particularly democratic presidents and politicians were very afraid of being soft of the war on terror and didnt want to make the hard decisions of not giving the military what it wanted and the military was providing a much rosier picture than was the case in order to s...

Congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming also laid blame at the feet of both add mentions. administrations. >> i think absolutely president biden bears responsibility for making this decision. but there is no question that president trump, his administration, secretary pompeo, they also bear very significant responsibility for this. they walked down this path of legitimatizing the taliban, of perpetuating this fantasy, telling the american people that the taliban were a partner for peace. president t...

>> weve known all along, weve said all along, including the president, that the taliban was at its greatest position of strength at any time since 2001 when it was last in charge of the country. that is the taliban that we inherited. but at the same time, we had invested over four administrations. billions of dollars along with the international community, in the afghan security and defense forces. the fact of the matter is weve seen that force has been unable to defend the country and that has ...

And be taken aback at how brave and patriotic they were. and to know how much they were risking in sacrificing, even then. afghan troops and security forces, they sacrificed year after year. this june alone, more than 700 afghan military and security forces died. in defense, of their country. we >> forgive me for interrupting. to that point that leads to one of her audience questions. and i wonder, kevin could you take this question. this is a question from lisa, who wrote, i really want to hear...

Misled the american people for the past two decades about the situation in afghanistan. >> its no doubt that the idea that was turning the corner that were doing better, that the taliban are on the run, was wrong. and i think these administrations work under the shadow of 9/11 where presidents, particularly democratic presidents and politicians were very afraid of being soft of the war on terror and didnt want to make the hard decisions of not giving the military what it wanted and the military ...

With any of the actual questions that people have over what they have seen over the past several days. particularly as it relates to any kind of confidence that we can have in our military leadership and our intelligence community that promised that something like this was going to take months if it happened and, frankly, we look back at that press conference, that the president had, where he was doing all this happy talk about the idea that the afghan military was prepared, that taliban leaders...

Taliban is not inevitable. >> i wish he was right. the taliban controls currently 60 to 70% of the country and afghanistans capitol, the could be in a matter of weeks. fox news senior retired general checking. did you predict the speed of this fall? >> its going faster than i thought it would. i thought it was likely to faster men many administrations but whats really happening, president biden has made serious miscalculations and particularly not considering the consequences of what an ill-conc...

Much capable of going on the offensive and beginning to take back the country. but at the same time we had invested over four administrations billions of dollars along with the international community in the afghan security and defense forces. building a modern military. with the most sophisticated equipment. 300,000 forces strong. with an air force the taliban didnt have. and the fact is weve seen that force has been unable to defend the country. that has happened more quickly than we anticipat...