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In planning and executing this withdrawal. as we've established, the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. laegs you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, its depends on what size ru remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a posture of 2,500 certainly you'd be in a fight with the taliban. and you'd have to reinforce yourself. >> i appreciate your looking at it as a fi...

0 >> thank you, senator. you're right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. >> mr. secretary, i don't mean to interrupt you bu...