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Knowing that they would have potential medevacs, that they would have personnel recovery assets at their capability if needed, that all went away when the u.s. announced that they were going to have the military out within just a couple weeks from now. and it caused a real morale problem in the afghan military. so the assessments that said that afghan military would continue to fight against the taliban, well, that didnt factor that in and it didnt factor in one other enormous thing, and that is...

Area. and then but then it got harder to do it. but then between the 6000 of nato partners in thousands of contractors to keep the afghan air force flying we should have kept the air force space thats now in the hands of the taliban we have lack the capability now china will do deals with the taliban to explain afghanistans resources and so will russia. they are completely fine. we know that will happen. is happening right now the deputy of the taliban leaves an organization that we have designa...

Talking a matter hours here in. >> they have the capability. what we have seen is the struggle between capability and will and motivation and thats where we -- we -- theres no question the afghan military had the capability to fight off the taliban in some of these cases. they have this one -- they have three major -- what the military would call aasmet tri trick advantages. they have very well trained commandoes that the taliban does not have. the third thing is the afghan military has an air f...

Im sorry, foreign adversaries are emboldened that being russia, china, iran. remember, we have no isr capability anymore. we are going dark in afghanistan as a dark veil covers the country. >> what do you make of the pushback from the biden administration? i dont disagree the buck stops with whoever is behind the resolute desk but the pushback that trump set the stage for all of this in the sense that he was talking about inviting the taliban to camp david? the last year, just last year trump an...

Sponsors and hosting terrorist organizations, we succeeded at that. over 20 year president, we spent over 2 trillion transforming that mission to something else. now it does seem like people got weary of it. you see what the afghan military was able to do after 20 years of investment from the united states. trey: chairman chaffetz? >> i think it is a little bit of all of the above. initially to root out the terrorists and degrade the capability of terrorist to regroup and hit the u.s. again. i t...

I was paraphrasing what biden himself said. im glad that you added your perspective. but biden in the statement today was essentially conveying that this was the deal set by my predecessor and im just carrying this out. but i want to talk about the taliban. because our clarissa ward spoke to the taliban. they said they were more disciplined now than back in 2001. is the taliban more empowered now after 20 years? >> first of all, under your comment regarding president biden, his predecessor saw n...

People, when in fact its the left pouncing on words like mom. this stuff is actually an attack on women which is why, its an attack on women to appeal or appease a tiny group of really angry activists. >> and it chaps my ass. >> greg: i have a lotion for that to. >> i know i borrowed it. its not like some white supremacist symbol, ive never given birth to a child, but i have carted around my entire life these reproductive organs and they are painful and messy and they come with a lot of pain. i ...

Announcement that we were leaving. >> dokoupil: after 20 years of work from the u.s., hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 2,000 american lives, why are the folks that we allied with and trained walking off the job? >> because the will to fight is more important than the capability, and because the afghan government is one of the most corrupt in the world. >> dokoupil: now we have 3,000 troops going back in. the lead elements are already there on the ground. what concerns you most tonight ...

>> what you have is entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy, six if im not mistaken. the taliban is not the north vietnamese army. they are not remotely comparable in terms of capability. to be nogoing circumstance where you see people lifted offms the roof ofn embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comparable. >> tucker: its not comparable. the difference, joe biden told us, and afghanistan we can rely on the afghan security forces to keep the savages ...

This problem. they took... afghanistan was never really a country and they ignored that and tried to make the central government nirvana based in kabul, ignoring any kind of central or local governance based on whatever their social experiment is, and the u.s. military replicated itself -- the u.s.. military, the most expensive military in the world replicated itself in afghanistan with a lot of expensive capability, and we have been beaten by weapons designed in the 1940s carried largely by ill...