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Building, efforts to combat the taliban. what i am very much in support of and always have been is a counterterrorism posture. it's important to differentiate between the two. counterinsurgency is a nation building exercise. counterterrorism is about neutralizing those with the capability to strike the u.s. homeland. the united states retains the prerogative everywhere in the world. we're ensuring that we do not have strikes on american citizens. and we need to sustain that in central asia as well and take a thorough look at the assets and the intelligence necessary to do that. >> i want to en...

Afghanistan. sir, thanks for being here. i do -- we just spoke with the national security adviser, jake sullivan. i want to get your reaction to what we heard from him. do you think that things are getting better? >> well, i mean, i guess given where we are and the fact that we have the best military in the world that can execute anything, we're better than we were, in a better place than we were a week ago. that doesn't mean we're in a good spot. i think we have a responsibility to talk about what went wrong, where we're screwing up, as we sit here and point fingers at the other party because...

Environment abruptly off limits and under the control of a hostile reseem. the counterterrorism posture went from problematic with the u.s. withdrawal to extraordinarily bad with the taliban in full control." according to one veteran intelligence officer who served as a cia base chief in afghanistan "suddenly one wonders if we will go entirely dark. it's like a bad dream." we start with some of our favorite reporters and trends. helene cooper, jonathan lemiere, and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey is here, lucky for us, all msnbc contributors. general mccaffrey, let me start off with ...

After 20 years, a trillion dollars spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of afghan security and defense forces, 2,448 americans killed. 20,722 more wounded, and untold thousands coming home with unseen trauma to their mental health, i will not send another generation of americans to war and afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. the united states cannot afford to remain tethered to policies creating a response to world as it was 20 years ago. we need to meet the threats where they are today, today the terrorist threat has metastasize beyond af...

20 years, $1 trillion spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of national security defence forces. 2448 americans killed. 20,000 more wounded. and untold thousands coming home with unseen trauma today mental health. i will not send another generation of americans to warrant afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. united states cannot afford to remain competitive policies creating a response to the world as it was eight years ago. we need to meet the threats where they are today. today a terrorist threat has metastasize beyond afghanistan. so, we ...