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Time, short changing them, particularly women in kabul. these were often used, the images were looking at right now, these images were used to build support for a war. and i think that its hard to really understand the extent to which things like this sort of fundamental failure of the american project in afghanistan really goes back to this counterterrorism centric focus at the expense not only of a state but of the lives of ordinary afghans. and so its really hard not to look at this as built ...

>> on that note, what you would you say to the white house who would say, well, you dont want to keep combat troops on the ground, risking their lives. you dont want to be in another countrys civil conflict in perpetuity, and also this argument that theyre just carrying out the deal that the trump administration struck with the taliban. >> number one, president biden has shown no problem with tearing up trump administration deals, whether it was keystone, the iran policy, israel and palestine. s...

Joining as former secretary of state mike pompeo. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thank you for having me on this morning. chris: how dire is the situation in afghanistan as we talk today is a full, band takeover of the country now inevitable. >> it certainly looks like it looks like the biden administration has failed in its execution of its own plan and looks like theyre trying to get folks out and this reminds me of previous administrations to allow embassies to be overrun and feels tha...

Of defense and afghan war veteran andrew smith thank you for joining us. you not only served in afghanistan within the trump administration. the question i want to ask is president biden says he has a binary choice about missing our tens of thousands of more troops were what was happening to be sustainable does the trump administration feel that was the case why they wanted to pull the troops out? being the troop on —- the trump administration saw the reality on the ground but the previous adm...

Democrats, widely varying ideologies and what we are seeing in kabul and the speed which it is happening across afghanistan is illustration of the limits of both american and international power, so very hard day, tragic day that one that four administrations owned. mike: if the united states was planning to leave afghanistan, why wasnt this better organized? >> this has been a complete disaster for american foreign policy and although i agree with laura that the outcome of this debacle has been...

Open to doubt. so who is responsible? well, yes, the us administrations those who did this deal last year with the taliban that was unsound, joe biden for his... untimely immoral i would withdrawal. but also those on all sides who refused to see the conflict for what it was. the taliban haventjust risen out of afghan villages over years. they are an organised force that has been preparing for this moment of invasion for years and their backers are in pakistan. my message is that pakistans milita...

Period of time, to gain greater control and influence in afghanistan for trade, and this at a time when the united states is facing, you know, perhaps its toughest period in history with a rising power, that power being china. this is what people in afghanistan have called over the years, the great gain. some people dont like that name. what were seeing is a significant regional power shift that will take time balancing out. the details we dont know. i believe this is whats under way. >> nic, cl...

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 s we have seen that that force has been unable to defend the country. and that has happened more quickly than we anticipated. >> so disappointment there in the afghan security forces. but we are also seeing this administration really on the defense. and you can hear that as well from the secretary...

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...

Hill for us. congressman spehr making headlines, interesting saying she would like to hear from president biden, he should be addressing americans about this sometime soon. are you getting any send that pressure is building on the president to do just that? >> look, it is clear that the normal political rules no longer apply in this situation when it comes to foreign policy, especially in a place like afghanistan, that has seen the fingerprints of republican and democratic administrations over t...