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Weve been in other countries many years later. we havent had a battle field loss in 18 months. what was unsustainable about 25 to 3500 troops with, most importantly, a lot of drones and air power overhead, all coming out of bases right in afghanistan, which, of course, is very efficient. and very good intelligence that enabled us to identify any efforts by al qaeda and now islamic state, establish a sanctuary in afghanistan. so there was an alternative. now, you know, how long would it take unti...

You can see this particular outcome as something positive for u.s. national security. but you raise a good question. we have troops all around the world. yes, theyre not active combat zones, but the question i always asked is could we achieve a sustainable commitment which is needed in any location where theres potential for islamist extremists to return. the likelihood of al qaeda returning and establishing the sanctuary they had under the taliban before when the 9/11 attacks were planned there...

2,500 forces. they also told the president that if we did pull out, its likely the taliban will take over. nobody expected in 11 days but likely they would take over. its indisputable that the al-quaida that were already present there will reemerge and be able to operate in the open and expand because now they have nothing to stop them from doing that. that would be a threat to american security. the director of the cia in testimony before the congress said that if we left afghanistan, there wou...

Done to bring order from chaos within the confines of the airport in kabul. certainly there is more challenges to be dealt with here. but these are very difficult operations, difficult situations. and there is going to be an element of chaos in this, but we certainly have to do this stuff up front to minimize that. >> what happens, general, to all of the u.s. bases, all of the military equipment, the tanks, the armored personnel carriers, the fighter care craft that have now fallen into taliban ...

In us intelligence to work out that that would happen? i dont think it was a failure of us intelligence, because us intelligence agencies had been becoming more dire in their assessments of a collapse of the afghan national security forces as we got into the spring and the early summer of 2021. if anything, it is a failure of policy, so the decision to leave, knowing the afghan national security forces might collapse, that is what us intelligence indicated. what could have been handled different...

I want you to ask you about, what is the hold up, why cant you get the people on planes and then sort it out. he tweeted, there are tons of cruiseships that are empty, there are bases around the world and there is a massive country to that is used to assimilating immigrants just put them on fing plans and get them out there. >> and i know congressman gallego. he was an infantry man in the marines that fought in the mideast. there are no soft terms that he would use to describe this. and that is ...

The airbase. the airbase now is secure. the base is calm and full of u.s. troops, it is very secure. there is air support above, but getting onto the base is a clalening. its a challenge from kabul. imagine trying to get deep from the provinces, trying to get from a district. if you are in a district in central afghanistan or northern afghanistan, you may have to go through 50 taliban checkpoints to get here. >> right. >> how are you going to do that and are you going to show all of the document...

You should shelter in place. left these civilians, we pulled out the military before we got out the innocent civilians there. brian: we left all our armament there. probably not going to be able to use the airplanes. they believe what left flew to another country with the pilots in them. thank you. it looks as though they have our bases and all of the prisoners are out. we are looking at whose fault is this? how could the president of the united states july 6th in other interviews and by the way...

Desperately trying to flee afghanistan but are very afraid of the taliban. whos still there and what are they telling you about what its like for them right now? >> so everything is messed up. after americans left afghanistan and slowly -- not slowly but like fast they took over all the cities and the towns. as soon as they entered to the towns, they start burning the cities, the businesses, and capturing the people, especially the people who served with the u.s. military in afghanistan as a tra...

Vietnam to reassure them that we are going to have their back, then go over to singapore. great optics there, saigon and kabul, fantastic, so if i was to put you, tony, in charge, congressman, in charge of this operation open up the arteries, knowing how diminished we are as a force and how -- we have no more bases there, how do we do it? taliban says im not letting americans come from outside kabul to kabul to get out, what do we do? >> number one, every american needs to return home. and we ha...