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Why? because they don't like the idea of men like you, men and women, shedding their blood in a war they don't think they can win in a place that they don't think is theirs to fight. but i always wondered if they had been asked, are you okay getting out of afghanistan if you won't be as safe at home afterwards, what do you think of that proposition, chris? do you think that america can be as safe at home from terror attacks as it was with a presence in afghanistan? >> chris, i was -- i'm shamelessly partisan when it comes down to our special operations forces and our counterterrorism forces. i...
Theirs to fight. but i always wondered if they had been asked, are you okay getting out of afghanistan if you won't be as safe at home afterwards, what do you think of that proposition, chris? do you think that america can be as safe at home from terror attacks as it was with a presence in afghanistan? >> chris, i was -- i'm shamelessly partisan when it comes down to our special operations forces and our counterterrorism forces. i was enormously blessed and honored to serve with them for quite a period of time. when we defeated the taliban in 2001, we did that with 200 special operators and pa...
Ending the war in afghanistan. was then and was a great supporter of the efforts to reduce our troop presence overseas so i'm not trying to dodge the question. we left with 2,500 troops in country. we actually had 3,500. we had some counterterrorism forces there as well. i felt like we had a pretty good force structure there and the opportunity to keep the taliban at bay. and we were at stalemate at that point. remember, chris, we were completely at stalemate when we left. political negotiations needed to continue. the war wasn't going to be won militarily and unfortunately things didn't go ou...
We left with 2,500 troops in country. we actually had 3,500. we had some counterterrorism forces there as well. i felt like we had a pretty good force structure there and the opportunity to keep the taliban at bay. and we were at stalemate at that point. remember, chris, we were completely at stalemate when we left. political negotiations needed to continue. the war wasn't going to be won militarily and unfortunately things didn't go our way. the opportunity to further negotiations and bringing ghani and the afghan government into negotiations didn't work the way we hoped. >> the agreement had...