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Decisions in our government. the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete us military withdrawal, that could potentially, in the worst case scenario, lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so thats back in february, and that was more or less where things stood in the winter and into the spring. by july. .. and youre exactly right that the situation was deteriorating, as the taliban continued to make progress on the ground. the intelligence community did no...

The military told us that in order to do its retrograde, its draw down from afghanistan in a safe and orderly way it needed three to four months and why we pushed to get to the end of august, early september. second to your point, an important one and good one, our expectation was that beyond august 31st, beyond the military drawdown, the government, security forces would remain in control of kabul, of the major cities, our embassy was fully planned to remain up and running. we were leaving 600 ...

Citizens, green card holders, afghans who have -- who are properly documented with a visa, including specifically those that worked in some capacity for the united states. not only do we have that understanding in public statements by the taliban, of course, its built in to everything we have done with a large coalition of countries in terms of setting an expectation and making very clear that the failure to fulfill that expectation will have significant consequences, which we can get into. seco...

Offensives on the urban centers? >> yes. >> so if the taliban had begun its siege on these cities and resumed attacks on u.s. troops would 2500 troops have been enough to keep the country from falling to the taliban? >> no. >> would double that number have been enough? do we know how big our force would have had to have gotten >> it was the assessment of our military leaders not to put a number on it but significant additional u.s. forces would have been required to both protect ourselves and to...

Its critically important that we listen to all of them who may be talking about exclusively the worst case, some the best case, and some in between. heres what i can say in this setting. we can take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal, that could potentially in the worst-case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. thats back in february, and th...

Out posts to getting them into quitting. we were seeing afghan out posts beginning to quit. they went from surrounding the small -- this is not the same time on july 8th when president biden was giving the nigh kwraef predictions. you could see they were splintering the remains of any sort of resistance. weeks before the fall of kabul, you could see the taliban was on the verge and headed towards something they had not done before, isolate kabul from the north and cutting off all supply routes. ...

Someplace and there will always be voiced and important we listen to all of them talking about exclusively the worst case, some best case, some in between. here is what i can say in this setting, and we can take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal that could potentially in the worst case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so thats back in f...

Population that has reached the united states? let me just start with my thanks to the state department, to the employees in kabul and qatar and the d.c. based task force that worked with the evacuation and & many americans i heard from. former military and folks who served in afghanistan. former diplomats eager to help. i look forward to continuing to coordinate with you and with agencies of our government, advocacy groups and other partners on resettlement efforts. im glad jack martell has bee...

That we listen to all of them who may be talking about exclusively the worst case, some best case, some in between. here is what i could say in this setting. and we could take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal, that could potentially in the worst case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so that is back in february. and that was more or les...

Order to do the drawdown from afghanistan in a safe and orderly way, it needed three to four months. thats why we pushed to move beyond may 1st and get to the end of august, early september. second, to your point, an important and good one, our expectation was that beyond august 31st, beyond the military drawdown, the government, the security forces were going to remain in control of kabul, of the major cities, our embassy was fully planned to remain up and running. we were leaving about 600 mil...