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January 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2,500 troops. >> president biden must decide whether to continue. all his national security advisors advise against pulling all u.s. troops out. april 14th, 2021 u.s. president joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditionally by september 11th. july 2, 2021 u.s. troops pull out of bag gram air force base leaving in the middle of the night surprising afghan partners and leaving thousands of prisoners un-- the taliban t...

But every time it got worse, not better. this count have been a surprise. they were never going to step to the plate and couldnt have been a surprise they wouldnt fight. no allegiance to a country. we knew. special ops people said it gets worse every day. every mission was worse. we used to drive from kabul to bag gram. -- after i went back the second time you couldnt do that. everything got bad. i just -- i have to tell this one. it drives me insane to see the television at night and see the ta...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of t...

Values, the struggle against terrorism, of the fallen this day are part of a great noble company of american heroes. for those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. i will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command. >> president biden was also asked yesterday about the decision to give up bag gram air base and here is what he had to say about tha...

Joni ernst. >> why not reopen bagram air base? you are bringing people out from kabul now and it is a choke point. >> first of all, the through-put has improved and increased. im not going to -- i dont think it would be a useful expenditure of our time to monday morning quarterback the whole issue with bag gram. it was closed down as part of the retrograde. >> im not talking about monday morning quarterbacking, why not look at the situation now. you need air fields that you can land on to get pe...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and thats what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go bac...

Men and pashtuns it doesnt work for women o. azarys. there was that feeling outside the city. and in that sense it is a tale of two country. city like kabul know nothing else but the freedoms given to them by the u.s. vast areas of the country fed up with war and wanted some kind of a change. thats whats very hard to balance right here. but, its fascinating and bizarre political decision to have made. we have all been saying its not necessarily the decision to pull out that is so wrong. it was h...

Afghanistan and he sort of had this deer frozen in the headlight look and he said we dont know. thats a pretty staggering statement. go ask the state department. maybe that i know. their answer was anyone who wants to get out can get out. im worried about the people who cant get to kabul. we gave up the most important military bases we had there. the one way we could have gotten people in and out was bag gram. now were stuck with a third world airport with a couple of stone buildings and taliban...

Be honest arbiters of the truth. leaving afghanistan as well, and that is true. but i have trouble believing that president trump would have priced these types of conditions into his decision. >> no i completely agree with you. feel pail to remember when they always try to pin it on former president trump that they called off discussions with the taliban npr actually had reported on this. npr taken credit that killed 11 people including u.s. soldier that was long before this had opinion set into...