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Experience in afghanistan and the issues. they've had to come to terms with the fact they were flat footed. there are the beginning of a couple of things becoming clear. they're not ironclad, but the outlines of next steps like for instance making u.s. military bases more available in germany and kuwait and qatar. they're going to run out of space pretty soon. we may see other bases drawn in. that's a way of building weigh stations for evacuees. the fundamental point they had to pick up the pace. over the first six days they've evacuated about 13,000 people. but they have to get up between 5, ...

Administration has sold itself on being an administration of competence and that they are, you know, experienced people who know how to do things. the vice president biden was involved in conversations on afghanistan, as you pointed out, had had a difference of opinion with president obama's policy and u.s. policy there. but it does sort of -- if this is his first foreign policy crisis, it certainly doesn't reflect well on this administration. >> no, you know, there is a saying in politics that a week is an eternity. in a war zone, it's longer. in afghanistan we have elements of both of that. ...

It's embarrassing that the united states of america has an unconditional surrender to a terrorist organization and begging them to back off of our evacuation. that is a situation on the ground that we're in right now. i've had thousands of vet trans contact the foreign affairs committee trying to get interpreters out, trying to get loved ones out and american citizens out. we can't process all of this. they got caught flat footed. we warned them to prepare, if you're going to do this, do it right, have the siv applicants, the american citizens, the planes ready to go. you had the story about p...

How fast the taliban was going to take over, they were caught flat footed. the taliban was in -- embedded in all the big towns, including kabul. they were just waiting for got sign joe biden goes on vacation. they give the go sign. it's done right now the arteries have shut to can a wall. we -- i -- kabul. why didn't we protect the embassy. the russians stayed, chinese stayed. are you telling me america can't protect an embassy feet from the palace? that's a joke. so now we can't get to the airport german plains can leave, they need a few thousand out. nobody can get to the airport. you have t...

Caught flat footed. >> michael, you mentioned vietnam. the president invoked the memory of vietnam during his remarks as well. have a listen. >> i made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that i wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago. our leaders did that in vietnam when i got here as a young man. i will not do it in afghanistan. >> how important do you think the memory of vietnam for biden and other politicians of his generation is, and how does he compare to an lbj or nixon on this issue? >> oh, ...