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Order to do its retrograde, its drawdown from afghanistan in a safe and ordinarily way, it needed three to four months. thats why we pushed to move beyond may 1st and to get to the end of august, early september. second, august. second, to your point, a 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, major cities. our embassy was fully planned to remain up and running. we were leav...

Taliban encroachment on kabul nearly sealed. kabul faced the prospect of no fuel and afghan government unable to mount any viable opposition and sustained defense. what did we think was going to happen? all of those things were in place at the time. i have think the most concerning part of it if we didnt have analysis. this was a failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didnt see this. either someone didnt see it or didnt want to see it. we wanted to be ou...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...