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>> i dont mean to interrupt you, but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment, because even as late as july youre still encouraging the afghan special forces, youre expecting the ghani government to remain. in december of 2019, the "washington post" reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army and police could ever fend off, much less defeat, the taliban on their own. general milley, ...

Lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the "washington post" reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army and police could ever fend off or defeat the taliban on their own. so general milley, you noted there are some specific mil...

And how it presented itself today. it looks like you have commanders on the ground saying one thing. joe biden saying isnt going to happen, no way, how ooh im out of there and a real cur if you havel in the middle with how they present information, nuance this information and because of that, people lost their lives, the taliban is in charge of afghanistan, terrorists have a safe haven and the world is less safe today than it was when joe biden took office and all of this responsibility, all of ...

Uncomfortable truths, that we didnt fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in the senior ranks, that we didnt grasp the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders, that we didnt anticipate the snowball effect caused by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in the wake of the doha agreement, and that the doha agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on afghan soldiers. and finally, that we failed to ...

Accountability. you gentlemen have spent your lives and i completely respect it, troops in combat, youve had troops under your command killed in action. you have been part of an institution where accountability is so critical. commanders get relieved up and down the chain, we see it, the mccain incident, the fitzgerald incident, the aav incident with the marine corps. but on this matter on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation, there has been zero accountability, no responsibility...

Possibility. and he summed up our 20-year war, calling it a strategic failure. david? >> all right, martha raddatz leading us off tonight. martha, thank you. and one more note on this. you heard what president biden told george several weeks back right here, that no one suggested we leave 2,500 troops behind. so, we pressed the white house today, how does that square with what we heard today from top u.s. military leaders on the hill? our terry moran in the briefing room. >> reporter: the pres...

Months now, it is clear military gave best military advice, that advice included keeping troops on the ground in afghanistan. that is not the advice the president took and we see what happened. draw attention to a couple points maybe have gotten lost in the discussions. first of all, it is notable that all three of the military commanders under oath talked about deficiency of the doha agreement, the agreement signed with taliban by the trump administration. all of them said that basically the ta...

Recommended to the president be left in afghanistan. listen here. >> i recommended we maintained 2500 troops in afghanistan. >> understand that. general milley, i assume you agree with that in terms of the recommendation of 2500? >> what i said in my opening statement and memoranda back in fall of 2020, remain consistent and i agree with that. >> john: talking to george stephanopoulos, the presidented none of my military advisors recommended leaving troops in afghanistan, he did give himself an ...

0 about 100 americans and that figure doesnt change. we need a real accounting for how many people, big difference between 100 and 4000. my biggest takeaway, we have no counter terrorism strategy and milley and mckenzie testifyod this, mckenzie said he is not confident we can prevent al qaeda or isis. >> harris: i am rushing, it is top of the hour, kayleigh and emily, everybody on "outnumbered," quick one for us as we ark wait the panel to reconvene. thanks for watching fox news. our coverage co...

0 why wasnt action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, presiden...