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Providing the afghans with a great capability and at the end of the day that capability was not employed because the security forces fractured and essentially evaporated. we need to look at ourselves what we did and whether or not its the right thing to do going forward. >> in my view congressman, i think when we do security forces assistance we have to guard against mirror image. with the afghan army from the beginning we wanted to create them in the image of the u.s. arm ear. the success story...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...

Prologue, public disagreements usually lead to more tense relationships between a west wing and a pentagon. how do you expect this relationship to go forward, david? >> well, i didnt think there was all that much distance between secretary of defense lloyd austin and general milley and general mckenzie. like courtney, i was struck by the sometimes painful honesty from general milley who really lived this war, commanded it, fought it, about the end result, that it was a strategic failure. he was ...

Attacks coming from afghanistan. a reconstituted al qaeda or isis with aspirations to attack the united states is a very real possibility. and those conditions to include activity in ungoverned spaces could present themselves in the next 12 to 36 months. that mission will be much harder now, but not impossible. and we will continue to protect the american people. strategic decisions have strategic consequences. over the course of four presidents, 12 secretaries of defense, 7 chairman, 10 centcom...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...

Not a single democrat voted no in the house, even though there was a republican-controlled congress and a republican-controlled senate, they voted unanimously not to throw the country in the proverbial pirahna pit. yes, the republicans are in charge, but lets not raise our bills and put our world into more debt for no reason. it doesnt matter if republicans are in charge. we should vote unanimously that does not happen. that was four years ago, september 2017. now it is september 2021 and its th...

Its the mirror image in terms of partisan control in washingtons right? now we have democratic president joe biden who is in his first year as president. in the 2020 elections last year, democrats secured narrow majorities in both the house and the senate. and just like september 2017, once again, it is time to do that thing that we have been doing since world war i. once again it is time to take that dumb vote to, a, keep the government funded so avoid a government shutdown, and also raise the ...

Democrats voted unanimously, to not throw the country into the provide real front a bit. to not hit that ceiling on purpose. yes the other party is in charge but lets not self inflicted totally pointless crisis and huge and there are so sorry expenditure, have a credit rating downgraded, throwing ourselves out a big part of the world into another financial grasp for no reason. democrat said lets not do. that doesnt matter that the republicans are in charge. nobody wants that for our country. we ...

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