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Convince the united states that it would be a better idea to withdraw in phases, where he tried to convince them to extend that deadline, he couldn't answer those basic questions, and, most tellingly of all, it was clear that, having had 18 months to prepare and four and a half months in which they had known that the 31st of august was the date by which all british troops, all british staff, all british nationals in the afghans who helped us would need to be evacuated, while some countries like france had put those measures and placements and months ago, his department had been the weakest lin...
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