modality to get the most people out in the most efficient way as possible. >> i have a question on that. yesterday, president biden said that the united states military is no national interest. [ inaudible question ] >> the president, as he has said repeatedly, has no intention of drawing down forces from south korea or europe, where we have sustained troop presences for a very long time, not in the middle of a civil war, but to deal with the potential of an external enemy and to protect our ally against that enemy. it's a fundamentally different kind of situation from the one we're presented with in afghanistan. >> the president yesterday said the situation in afghanistan was -- numerous officials have