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Order to do its retrograde, it's drawdown from afghanistan in a safe and ordinarily way, it needed three to four months. that's why we pushed to move beyond may 1st and to get to the end of august, early september. second, august. second, to your point, a good one, our expectation was that beyond august 31st, beyond the military drawdown, the government, the security forces, were going to remain in control of kabul, major cities. our embassy was fully planned to remain up and running. we were leaving about 600 military behind to make sure that we could secure the embassy. so that it could cont...

Taliban encroachment on kabul nearly sealed. kabul faced the prospect of no fuel and afghan government unable to mount any viable opposition and sustained defense. what did we think was going to happen? all of those things were in place at the time. i have think the most concerning part of it if we didn't have analysis. this was a failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didn't see this. either someone didn't see it or didn't want to see it. we wanted to be out by september 11th so we could have some ceremony arguing we pulled out of afghanistan on the a...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it wh...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it when the taliban was dimin...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the ...