CNN New Day Weekend With Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul December 15, 2019 11:20:00
Withdrawing without any real gains for the basically 18 years of effort that we have put into afghanistan. >> right. i think a lot of people are sitting at home watching this thinking, what does this mean for u.s. national security if these troops are pulled out? what is your concern, colonel? >> well, first of all, the reason that we put troops in afghanistan was to prevent afghanistan from becoming another jumping off point for a terrorist group like al qaeda. we all know al qaeda used afghanistan as their staging base for the 9/11 attacks in 2010. ofg wou so today it may not be al qaeda, it...
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