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Own government, it is not to stand up to our closest security ally and say this is the wrong call. and if americans want to pull out in this way, symbolically pull out, britain should then have the courage to step in to that vacuum, because if america doesn't lead, britain should. instead, everybody has followed suit, and now we see the demise of a country, a failed state develop, all because of the political judgment by firstly president trump and then, very sadly, by president biden. i'll come back to the geopolitics of all of this very soon, because the points you just made are clearly very...

Coping, we had a minimalist international presence there, there were more troops in britain than there were in afghanistan, more british troops in cyprus than they were in afghanistan. we were just having enough to give our superiority and intelligence to give the afghan forces the edge, so they could canteen the taliban, and that gave legitimacy to the afghan government. some errors were made about the governing structure that is appropriate to afghanistan, but things were working out. sadly it became a presidential election issue, and if you ask me what the failures of my own government, not...

There were more british troops in cyprus than there were in afghanistan. we just had enough to give air superiority, intelligence gathering, istar capabilities to give the afghan forces the edge so they could contain the taliban — and that gave legitimacy to the afghan government. now, some schoolboy errors were made, and i touched on it before about the governance structure that's appropriate to afghanistan, but things were working out. sadly, it became a presidential election issue, and if you ask me what the failure is of my own government, it is not to stand up to our closest security al...

Jim, says because saudi arabia is a key ally, is saudi arabia a key security ally to the u.s. and if so please explain to us how? >> for decades it has been important ally to the u.s., different presidents have sort of relied on saudi arabia in part because they are the most important oil producer in the region and for decades the u.s. depended on that oil. less so today but a little bit and also helpful in the counterterrorism and in other missions in the middle east, the middle east is always boiling and so the u.s. has turn today saudi arabia on occasion. my concern, though, are we -- if we...

We're here to relieve the famine, it's a famine that they helped create. >> i just want to add, we can still work with the saudis to advance peace in the region, to advance our interests in counting iran. we don't have to give away our power and say basically you can do whatever you want and abandon our ideals i think we're on a collision course with the president and the cia brian, in january the u.s. is going to come forth with an intelligence cemen assessment. they'll be asked pointblank, what say you about the assessment of mbs' cupability. >> with the entire 15 seconds i have left tonight...