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♪ howie: ahead my interview with larry elder, the california radio host who has a shot at becoming governor. as hard liners say it would have been better to leave some military contingent in afghanistan indefinitely, president biden used his televised speech to reject those views. >> so when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. >> but there was so little sense of humility ab...

Terrorism in afghanistan, getting the terrorists and stopping attacks morph into a counter insurgency, nation building, trying to create a democratic cohesive and united afghanistan, something that has never been done over many centuries of afghan's history. we have been a nation too long at war. if you're 20 years old today, you have never known an america at peace, so when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of th...

So what does the relationship with the taliban look like now you heard them say last night, they are recognizing taliban as the legitimate government of the country, but they believe they have leverage over the taliban on things like human rights and getting the remaining americans out of the country. i thought that with the biggest defense that we heard from the white house came as you said from the president simms yesterday and one of the interesting lines that he responded to directly is that maybe the u.s. could have maintained a small presence on the ground. >> when i hear that we could h...

His case. >> we have been a nation too long at war. if you are 20 years old today, you have never known an america at peace. when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on, willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation. maybe it's because my deceased son served in iraq for a full year before that -- well. maybe it's because of what i have seen over the years as sen...

September 11th, 2001. and they were based in afghanistan. we delivered justice to bin laden on may second 2011. over a decade ago. al-qaeda was decimated. we succeeded and what we set out to do in afghanistan over a decade ago. then we stayed for another decade. it was time to end this war. when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. there is nothing low grade or low risk or low cos...