an idea that ridiculous and only be imposed by force only withh armed men at gunpoint. the moment these ideas are not mandatory, people tend to revert to the lives that they refer to it. may be the real reference of afghanistan and let s hope our leaders notice it. a retired army colonel and former senior advisor to the secretary of defense entrances tonight because he is the one man who can answer the question who should have known better? thank you so much for coming on tonight. so you have called for withdrawal from afghanistan for a long time, gave them a detailed plan for how to do that without the result we are seeing today. what did our government just do that we should not have done? i think there are three things we have to take into consideration. first, of course, is there was never an exit strategy. when i was in the pentagon, the only thing i could find out was there was intention to stay indefinitely.
military, executing this mission with bravery and valor, what do you need? i will give you anything you need. he president biden has been deeply engaged in this, yes. there is still a lot of anger in australia this morning about the way that this has played out. so many afghans who have helped the australian forces and helping the u.s. mission over the past 20 years. does the administration accept some responsibility? what would be your response to the people who are trapped? some are fearing execution because of the exit strategy. jake: we do take some responsibility for our allies and partners in afghanistan. as i said, we are working to facilitate clients and have already done so for countries that have lined them up and got their citizens to the airport, and we will be eager to work with australia to help get out
is 20 years of blood and treasure, sacrifice on the ground of afghanistan enough? i have lost over 40 of my friends, like risked of my life for that country, my men risked their life for that country. we gave them a shot at freedom. at some point they have to stand up and fight for their own. i m not saying we should abandon them on the battlefield. we should have had an infrastructure in place to vet these people prior to our exit strategy even beginning. will: right. so, now, unfortunately, it s almost too late. we can figure we can have conversations about how we can go in after but this botched exit strategy makes it far more difficult, will. will: yeah, we see images and i m sorry to rush you along, sean, you have an important message here. we see the images of c-17s full of refugees. we have bases all over the world. allies all other the world. there needs to be a process put in place now. frank, i want to turn to you. you lost your brother on 9/11. we went to afghanistan
at that airport after they fired on american troops. the u.s. believes it was an isolated incident. the situation in afghanistan spiraling so quickly that president biden deployed an additional 1,000 troops to help evacuate americans and others. the total number is about 6,000 troops and we just got word that president biden will speak this afternoon. the white house this morning defending the exit strategy from america s longest war. we went to afghanistan for one reason, which is to get the people who attacked us on 9/11. a decade ago we got osama bin laden. we degraded al qaeda. we stop terrorists attacked against the united states from afghanistan for 20 years. but what the president not prepared to do was enter a third decade of conflict with thousand more troops which was his only other choice to fight in the
congressman, we re out of time, but i have to ask this question. given this debacle in afghanistan, barbara lee was the only member of congress to vote against it in 2001. but you have the debacle in afghanistan. iraq, libya. at what point does congress start trying to reign in president who go to debate without proper discussion, without an end goal, without an exit strategy? we are long past due for that. we can t do blank checks anymore. that s why i ve got a call for the repeal of these authorizations of military force. we can t have three generations of americans going to war over 20 years spending trillions of dollars without having a robust discussion about that all the time. these aumss have to have a set provision so they re only good for a certain period of time. it will force debate. it will force accountability. the american people have to be engaged with us on a regular basis. we just can t allow this to happen again. no, we can t.