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Support that too. >> some veterans think that the americans should just pull everybody out of kabul. the u.s. government should pull all americans out of kabul and then just level the embassy. what do you think about that? >> i think that one of the great things about this country is that people are free to express their opinions about anything that they want. what i'm here to do, lucas, my job, is to articulate the policies that we're executing and the way in which we're executing them and that's what my focus is today, to tell you what we've been ordered to do. >> is it time just to pull all...

Secretary or the joint staff a contingency plan to reintroduce u.s. combat troops a la what we did in 2014 in iraq if the white house requests it? has that -- such a plan been crafted? >> that we are a planning organization, tony, is true, what's also true is we don't talk about every single plan on the books. our focus right now, tony, and the plans that we are executing are to meet the president's drawdown requirement by the end of this month, not -- and to assist in the drawdown of state department personnel also by the end of the month. and i'm not going to speculate about what things look...

Battalions that are going to the international airport over the course of the next few days. >> thank you. >> thank you. question is, pakistan is blaming now, again, u.s. for the crisis in afghanistan and also prime minister of pakistan, he already knows the taliban government in kabul. and finally, if any country in the region, including india, ask u.s. help in this mission of evacuation? >> i don't know of any other nations involved in this. i mean, these are sovereign decisions that nation states have to make. as i said yesterday, should we be asked to support any movement by our allies and...

House correspondent, phil mattingly, and cnn senior international security editor, nick paton walsh. let me start with you. 17 capitals now, at least 17, this is happening remarkably fast. >> in a week. and if you cast your mind back, victor, to literally how the last 20 years have often been about stalemates over a village in the middle of nowhere, an intense amount of u.s. military power, the speed of this reversal is utterly staggering, faster frankly than when the u.s. swept in, in 2001. the second and third largest cities in taliban's hands. kandahar fell overnight. it feels like a couple...

Ground. what we have said is that the afghans have the capability to do that. and we still believe that they could make a difference on the ground. we will do what we can from the air. but they have the advantage. they have greater numbers. they have an air force. they have modern weaponry. it's indigenous forces that can make the difference on the ground. and that's -- so, our support to the afghans was really done in that vein. and again, as for counterterrorism, you've heard the secretary say himself there's not a scrap of the earth that the united states military can't hit if it's needed. ...