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Hkia has a single runway with a commercial airport making it difficult to defend that runway. baghram has two runways. it would have been a lot easier to protect people once inside. is there any thought of retaking baghram in order to expedite this evacuation, and if not why not? i won t great question, but i m not going to discussion branches and sequels off of our current operation and i ll just leave it at that. okay. and i think the last one will to you, security. general mill year, you keep say no one expected a collapse of the afghan company in 11 days. they were threatening kandahar a month ago all right. the question is if you both thing you had such a moral obligation to the afghans who supported the military and state department for 20 years, should you have pushed harder when the taliban offensive began to get these people out and they may not be in the situation that ....
In order for the embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular service and if we keith both baghram and the embassy going that would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had. so had to collapse one or the other and the decision was made, the proposal was made from centcom command and command on the ground to go ahead and collapse bag rarnlgs all briefed and approved and we estimated the risk going out of either field was about the same. going out of kia was the better tactical position and in order to get the troops down to a 600, 100 number. we ve got time to two more and i haven t gotten to the phones at all so let s go to dan lamoth with the washington post. just in a follow-up to baghram versus hkia in question. ....