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They just pulled out a coup. secretary: e heard the secretary saying that wasn't a plan. there was a plan but chose to tear it up and put constraint where we had condition's base model. just very different ways of thinking about the problem and so when you think about this coup, this take over, we try to get all of the players at the table. we had women's groups, ngo's, taliban, folks from the north, the afghan government itself, all at the table trying to get a transition where we could some day, maybe ten years to get reconciliation among the afghans, they just permitted the taliban to throu...

Many of the efforts that we made and that this congress made and supported including with very, very significant assistance. this is -- this is hard. i was in kabul after the president announced his decision. i met with women leaders from the then parliament and ngo's, a lawyer, a human rights defenders and listen and heard from them about their concerns about the future. just the past couple of weeks when i was out in doha and then in ramstein, i talked to a young woman and girls that we evacuated and heard from both of them. both of their gratitude for having been evacuated but also deep con...

We've had covid. everything piling on to one of the poorest countries on earth to begin with. so when it comes to food. when it comes to medicine. when it comes to the basics, we, the international community, ought to be able to provide that. provided we can do it knowing the assistance will get to the people who need it and not diverted or used in any other way. we have longstanding mechanisms and arrangements in place including leading ngo's to do just that, as well as very clear monitoring mechanisms to make sure even in an environment that we don't control that assistance gets to the peopl...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i don't know who you're talking to. but if you're talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if you're talking honestly to our adversaries, they will certainly say it is a sign of weakness, as will terrorist groups a...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the ...