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I think there was always going to be a mess. you said it right. about a year and a half ago the u.s. started laying the groundwork saying the war wasn't worth it as they were negotiating with the taliban. the issue and the execution came -- we abandoned bagram air base for some reason. i think that should have been the last thing we left. also, when you saw the afghan army collapsing, which, by the way, when you lose your air power and lose your logistics support, militaries collapse. when they saw that happening, there was no rush to rush troops in, resecure bagram or secure kabul airport, re...

Around the world. we went to afghanistan with our allies in 2001 for clear reasons. one, to get the people who attacked us on 9/11 and to get osama bin laden, and to make sure that afghanistan was not used again as a base from which to attack the united states or our allies. we achieved that objective. we delivered justice to bin laden more than a decade ago. but the current environment looks very different than it did in 2001, and we have to meet the challenges we face today. we run effective counterterrorism operations around the world where we know terrorism is more of a threat than it is t...

President biden speaking out about the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan in a just-released interview. the president saying america's mission was to make sure al qaeda could not use afghanistan for a base and not for nation building purposes. let's listen. >> begin to morph into the notion instead of having counterterrorism capability, have small forces in the region to be able to take on al qaeda to try to reconstitute. we decided to engage in nation building, in nation building. that never made any sense to me. >> all right. let's take a look at that with our resident fact checker daniel d...

Able to and that's in a sense something similar to what he says now. >> listen to what he said to george stef luce in the interview this morning about nation building that, after al qaeda was defeated the bush administration decided this needed to rebuild afghanistan so there wouldn't be the conditions that had al qaeda go there in the first place. take a listen. >> then what happened? it began to morph into the notion that instead of having a counterterrorism capability, to have small forces there or in the region to be able to take on al qaeda if they tried to reconstitute, we decided to eng...