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The last person to die for a mistake and the afghan war was a mistake and the president got it exactly right. the initial narrowly focused mission was what we focused on. everything after that was a massive strategic, one that has cost us tremendously. how can you ask americans to continue to sacrifice for this moment when we saw today, and over the fence -- past few days, a complete collapse of the government and military. this was not a taliban military victory. it was a political victory. they took kabul without firing a shot. they swept into these cities by having discussions, by having br...

Grenades and everything. we have just created a very, very, well armed taliban fighting force. the military, the afghan military we spent all these years building did not want to fight in the end. they walked away. the taliban takeover of the country was not a military takeover. the taliban walked into kabul without firing a shot. the military and the government and all the provincial capitals all surrendered to the taliban or just walked away. in kabul the central government there and the security forces supposedly defending kabul, they did the same just as they did out in all the provinces. ...

And richard was right there in the middle of it. but now that the taliban have been able to take control of all of the provincial capitals, and then the whole country, including kabul, without fighting at all, not in a military operation. but what appears to be a negotiated surrender by afghan government forces and the afghan military. all over the country. as the taliban have now walked into kabul, without firing a shot. richard has been there recording around the clock, as they have taken over. we have been battling some technical difficulties, as you might imagine, for some obvious reasons....

Military facilities, military vehicles, military bases. that's a very huge amount of the expenditure went. and in the end, what has become of that? well, some of it we were able to destroy in time, some of it we were able to airlift out in time. but anything that we could not destroy or later lift out in time, has become the property of the taliban. including literally, u.s. military bases, and helicopters. and mortars and rifles and grenades, and everything. we have just created a very very well armed taliban fighting force. the military, the afghan military, we spent all these years build bu...

Complete collapse of the government, a complete collapse of the military. this was not a taliban military victory. this was a political victory. they took kabul without firing a shot. they swept into these cities by having discussions, by paying bribes, by winning over the warlords of these provincial capitals and the reason they could do that is because the government we spent so much equ was corrupt and examine-- incompetent. no afghan soldiers were going to die for this government. how could we ask american soldiers to die for this government. >> were members of this military using the viet...