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Effort to overcome centuries of history and permanently change afghanistan was not and i wrote and believed it never could be. i cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly in another country's civil war. taking casualties, suffering life shattering injuries, leaving families broken by grief and loss. this is not in our national security interest. it is not what the american people want. it is not what our troops who have sacrificed so much over the past two decades deserve. i made a commitment to the american people when i ran for president that i would bring america's military i...

Afghanistan a number of times, listened to the intel analysts over and over, the taliban was going to take back this country when the united states left, and the american people were never going to support the united states being there for another 20 or 50 years. >> the very practical consequence, though, of the speed with which the taliban have consolidated control is the need to speed up the evacuation of everybody who we are trying to get out of that country. now we've heard a lot of speechifying and the right kinds of language from leaders of all stripes making sure we have done that, but ...

Have been sounding the alarm, warning that this was going to go this way for so long. you are right. for weeks and months, before this finally happened. now that we are here, and everybody is scrambling to figure out what can be done. i feel like we owe it to you, who has been writes, to ask what can be done now? >> first thing i'd ask is the president of the united states takes a meeting with our team. we want to be proactive partners in this. we one have wanted to be proactive partners this whole time, and we have a plan and a solution there's army of americans right now at work, they are pr...

We have a plan and solution. there are an army of americans at work, private citizens, faith based organizations from all walks of life. there are people in the government busting their butts right now from all sides of the aisle, this is a whole of american effort. it's probably the thing i'm most proud of to see how much our american citizens are rallying and trying to get this right. the president needs to understand that the american people want to exit honorably and we have thus far screwed it up but we can still fix it. we have a beach head in kubl -- kabul right now. the taliban are afr...

Of the 20 years of investment it is still one of the poorest countries on earth, there is a problem. that tells you something about what the benefit is of the expenditure. i mean, what were the results of our massive expenditure, our massive effort in afghanistan? i mean, the u.s. effort and expenditure in that country did definitely build some stuff. roads and round abouts and schools and water projects. absolutely it did. but part of the reason even that scale of investment over 20 years didn't materially change more about what it is like to live in afghanistan is because so much of what we ...