contingency plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. i m determined to ensure that we complete our mission, this mission. i m also mindful of the increasing risks that i have been briefed on and the need to factor those risks in. they are real and significant challenges that we also have to take into consideration. the longer we stay, starting with the growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as isis k which is a sworn enemy of the taliban or so. every day we re on the ground is the day we that isis k is seeking to target the airport and target us and allied forces and innocent civilians. additionally, thus far, the taliban have been taking steps to work with us so we can get our people out. but it is a
challenges that we also have to take into consideration. the longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as isis k, an isis affiliated in afghanistan, which is the sworn enemy of the taliban as well, every day we re on the ground is another day we know that isis k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. additionally, thus far the taliban had been taking steps to work with us so we can get our people out, but it is a tenuous situation. we ve already had some gun fighting break out. we run a serious risk of it breaking down as time goes on. second, the g7 leaders and the leaders of the eu, nato and the u.n. all agreed that we will stand united in our approach to the taliban. we agreed the legitimacy of any
laying out, there are some obstacles that lay ahead outside of the borders of the united states that could be very terrifying. david, there have been a lot of republicans, including trump allies and supporters, who are really balking at this move to pull troops from syria. and yet, you have some, like senator rand paul, who are cheering it on. and he says these four deaths have nothing to do with the president s decision. and i want you to listen to what he had to say today on cnn. to those who say, oh, they were killed because we re leaving, no they re killed because we were there. and the longer we stay, the more of our soldiers will be killed. there s a lot of political theater around all of this. but what do u.s. national security officials think, david? so the four deaths were a deep tragedy, particularly with those who seem to be four people who were working extremely well with the syrian people, they were in a cafe, actually, talking to some syrians, at the
responsibility, frankly. congress should be involved in making this decision. but i think it does affect the property profoundly and to those who say, oh, they were killed because we re leaving. no, they re killed because we were there. and the longer we stay, the more of our soldiers will be killed. basically, 2,000 soldiers are targets. the arabs on both side, they love to kill americans, because it makes international news and it tracks us further into their quagmire. ultimately, i think the end of terror, the end of radical islam comes when islam steps up. islam has to police islam. the islamic countries have to police them. i say goodness sakes, there is 1% of isis left, they can t take care of them? why is it our job, our soldiers to lay their lives on the line? i think it s time for the arabs to stand up and police their own nations. senator paul, some wondered whether the tragedy this week in syria. the death of four americans would slow the president s
in afghanistan for another decade, and this is what we ve been warning about for some time on this show, america sleeps. we re not really even as a nation discussing it anymore. the subject of afghanistan is sort of off the table. in the meantime, china is spending billions of dollars mining afghanistan s precious mineral reserves. while we re spending hundreds of billions of dollars prosecuting an unwinnable war. who do you think is going to be the winner? and, while we have been pursuing these wars over the past decade, while we have been sending young men and women to foreign lands to die, china has been using that decade to gain strategic alliances in latin america, and africa, across the globe. we are every day we stay in afghanistan, every day, ford, that we stay in iraq, is a day that we damage america s future. it is not a close call. we have to now reconvene and have that conversation. representative ron paul, very