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Snowball effect becauseed by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in the wake of the doha agreement. the doha agreement had a demoralizing effect on soldiers and there was only so much for which and for whom many of the afghan forces would fight. we provided the afghan military with equipment and aircraft and the skills to use them. over the years they often fought bravely. tens of thousands of afghan soldiers and police officers died. we couldnt provide them with the ...

The department nearly 25 billion more than the presidents budget request yet the administration views additional data collection and training requirements to counter the threat of extremism as on orous. we heard that about sexual assault before the department real ietzed it was failing and needed greater tools and documented systemic racism under the code of military justice for at least 50 years, yet the department is making little if any progress to address that whether sexual assault. racial ...

>> general mckaf ri, what is your reaction to the defense secretary? and of course in the military commanders? >> straightforward, accurate, both president trump and biden made decisions to withdrawal completely and almost immediately. the doha agreement clearly sent the afghanistan government on the road to collapse. the only surprise was that it happened to rapidly. once you go below 2500 troops you no longer have a sustainable presence. so i think we ought to be thankful, no invasion, straigh...

Runway in our aircraft. we all remember the confusion -- >> sorry, well get that under control. go ahead, sir. >> outside the airport but within 48 hours our troops restored order and the process began to take hold. our soldiers, airmen and marines in partnership with our allies, our partners, and our state department colleagues secured the gates, took control of the airport operations and set up a processing system for the tens of thousands of people that they would be manifesting onto airplane...

In afghanistan in a stable environment. thats what he said not that no one presented that option. that option didnt exist in reality. and no one presented it. the president made it clear earlier in that same interview that yes, some of his military leaders had said that we should keep 2500 troops there. what he said was none of them said we could do in it a stable, peaceful environment and thats the key point. the other key point is and i know a lot of energy will be expended today trying to get...

Role in the collapse of the government and the security forces. i also believe that weak leadership added to that, the fact that president ghani, without any apparent reason, changed out commanders, which degraded the confidence of the troops and their leadership. i think -- i believe also that the doha agreement had a significant negative effect on the moral of the military. i think there is a combination of a number of things that came together to create effects. i certainly agree that corrupt...

Questions about the wider war itself. and pause to think about the lessons that weve learned over the past 20 years. did we have the right strategy? did we have too many strategies. did we put too much faith in our ability to build effective afghan institutions. an army, an air force, a police force, and government ministries. we helped build a state, but could not forge a nation. the fact that the afghan army that we helped train simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot took us al...

Been left there and how you approach that decision and what exactly your advice was to the president for what i said earlier, but how you approach that decision and how you attempt to deal with that while advising the president. >> first of all, chairman, let me be clear that i support the presidents decision to end the war in afghanistan. i did not support staying in afghanistan forever and let me also say that we talked about the process that we use to provide input to the president. i think t...

>> secretary psaki: thats not what i said. >> the president pulled all u.s. troops are. you are saying there were military commanders who advised him that that was a good idea to pull all american troops out and that general milley, general mckenzie, general miller, they said something else, but the presidents top military visors, others we wont name, told him sure, we can pull everyone out? >> secretary psaki: thats not how these conversations go. its a risk assessment. >> sean: joe biden lied ...

If you lost your life or you know somebody that did, or you lost your limb or you have invisible wounds and you say what was it for because these commanders just threw everything we did in the street and you have one lieutenant colonel speak up and say that, and say im willing to resign because of that, your biggest problem is not a marine colonel for putting him in jail is sinful. and i cannot believe how many messages i have gotten as people want to contribute to his defense. they want him out...