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In the united states right now given the labor shortage caused by the pandemic. >> good point. brian tadodd reporting. thanks very much. lets discuss this more with the former commander of the u.s. military central command, currently a distinguished senior fellow at the middle east institute. thank you for joining us. you were one of the first americans on the ground in afghanistan back in 2001. you were commander from 2016 to 2019. what goes through your mind seeing afghan partners now afraid f...

Coming up next, im going to speak to general david petraeus who led the mission in afghanistan for a number of years. also central command, later the cia. what he thinks about president bidens claims that this chaos was inevitable. plus, the president says he and the first lady will get their covid booster shots as soon as theyre available. what you need to know about the rollout, what it means for you. also, this quick programming note. join us, join cnn for "we love new york city." its the...

2011, also commanded central command and later the c.i.a., retired army general david petraeus. general, thank you so much for taking the time this morning. >> thanks, jim. >> president biden is arguing, big picture here and he said it in so many words, that the outcome would have been the same in afghanistan whenever the u.s. withdraw. he said, quote, 15 years ago would have been a problem, 15 years from now. is he right? >> well, i have always argued the bipartisan commission that was chartere...

Perhaps, exaggerating their ability after all these years of advising and assisting them? >> look, i stand by what ive said. when i was the commander there, director of the c.i.a., central command before that, publicly and privately. now, beyond that, certainly theres plenty of blame to go around. and the special inspector general identified a lot of things we did wrong over the years. thats inevitable. this is war. but at the end of the day, again, the administration wisely made the decision to...

La Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos dio a conocer el martes nuevos detalles sobre el caos de evacuación en el aeropuerto internacional de Kabul un día antes, diciendo que se encontraron restos humanos en el hueco de la rueda de un avión militar que estaba lleno de civiles desesperados por huir de los talibanes. "Además de los videos vistos en Internet y en informes de prensa, se descubrieron restos humanos en el hueco de una rueda del C-17 después de que aterrizó en la base aérea de ...

La reportera, afincada en Bruselas, pide entre lágrimas a la comunidad internacional que no dé la espalda a Afganistán

Milicianos talibán han erigido puestos de control en las inmediaciones del aeropuerto internacional de...

Habrán 6 mil elementos involucrados en la seguridad del aeropuerto

The embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular services and all that. if we were to keep both bagram and the embassy going, that would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had. and so a decision was made, proposal was made from centcom to collapse bagram and we estimated that the risk of going out of bagram was about the same. so going out of kaya was estimated to be the better tactical solution in accordance with the mission set that we we...