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To watch. but if we just simply leave today, believing that if we had planned better, if we had better execution, we could have avoided this panic and confusion, i think we re just inviting another iraq, another afghanistan in the future. finally, mr. secretary, just quickly expand on your point about the message that it sends to china. this idea thatd chie ha needs would love it if we stayed another ten or 20 years and why this isn t a sign of weakness, and it s an ability for you and the national security infrastructure to reorient resources toward fights we can win. i think, nsenator, you put i well. in my assessment and the assessment of many others, as i said, there s nothing that strategic competitors like china, like russia, or adversaries like iran or north korea would like better than for us to reup the war, double down ....
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 taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there ....
Stay was for the taliban to resume attacks. not just on us but on our naught yoe partners and allies. as well as to engage in this country wide offensive that we have seen to retake the major cities. in effect, to reup the war. and all unanimously endorsed the proposition that we would leave together. and that s exactly what we worked on doing. what we have been doing. i know from talking to manial many allies making sure we could get out our fellow nationals, afghans that help each of us and our embassy personnel. a lot of gratitude from allies and partners about the work that our folks did in making sure that we could deliver on that commitment to them. so from my perspective at least, there was tremendous and genuine consultation with allies and partners throughout this process. and going forward, right now, ....
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you re correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we want to allow the flights to start to move. and we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary. we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. and i now recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes. ....