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Misassessed how quickly the taliban would sweep through afghanistan and we no longer have an embassy there, how can you at all be confident of your assessment of the risk of terrorism and the ability of the u.s. to conduct over the horizon missions to keep it in check? can you tell americans that they're safe and will remain safe from terror attacks in afghanistan? >> i think you're comparing apples and oranges. one question was whether or not the afghan forces we trained up would stay and fight in their own civil war they have going on. no one -- i shouldn't say no one. the consensus was that...

Countryside, north and south. none of the major areas, none of the major points of the capitals of each of these provinces, but they were all over the country, and the idea that if i had said on may 2nd or 3rd, we are not leaving, we are staying, does anybody truly believe that i would not have had to put in significantly more american forces? send your sons, your daughters, like my son was sent to iraq? to maybe die? and for what? for what? so, the only rational thing to do, in my view, was to set up and preposition american forces for the purpose of evacuation and the aircraft to preposition...

Countryside, north and south. none of the major areas, none of the major points of the capitals of each of the provinces, but they were all over the country, and the idea that if i had said on may the 2nd or 3rd we are not leaving, but we are staying, does anybody truly believe that i would not have had to put in significantly more american forces, send your sons and your daughters and like my son was sent to iraq to maybe die and for what? for what? so the only rational thing to do in my view was to set up and preposition american forces for the purpose of evacuation and the aircraft to prepo...

Was that this was not -- they were not going to collapse. the afghan forces, they were not going to leave. they were not going to just abandon and put down their arms and take off. so, that's what's happened. thank you very much. thank you. >> for about 30 minutes there, talked about the several elements that now have to be navigated. he started this speech today by saying the only country capable of projecting this much power with this precision is the united states, and then went on to show just how imprecise the plan and the operations are and the degree of power that the u.s. is not using ...