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Solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, we'd got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, that's got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in this peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and it's not ideological at all, it's really crudely nationalist. the motives of china and russia and iran now — it's not — that bloc that is developing that dynamic which will involve afghanistan v...

Was that we felt we had solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, we'd got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, that got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in his peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and it's not ideological at all, it's really crudely nationalist. the motives of china and russia and iran now — it's not — that bloc that is developing that dynamic is not the ...

Release of thousands of foreign fighters including senior al qaeda operators from prison. in the kabul area and other places. so we have is a serious and growing terrorism problem in the country and is worth noting paul that we have seen a lot of jihadist chatter over the past couple of days, shifting their focus from as afghanistan as the global jihadist of this does not bode well for jake's comments. >> so if you're a jihadist in syria, that is not a very safe area. there are real risk their know him assuming they will think that okay, going back to afghanistan which is a much harder and har...

Collapsed, there was no morris soviet union to oppose. the obvious question is what is nato for? and within ten years of communism collapsing, we had 9/11, and the rise of islamist terrorism and so nato became basically a counterterrorism outfit, and that was its mantra. so that's why biden can say the reason that we are able to pull out of afghanistan that we wanted to pull out of afghanistan was that we felt they resolve the terrorism problem in afghanistan. they killed bin laden, they got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so that has got nothing to do with the original conception of nato, whi...

This small force. we gave up long ago what ideas we might have had about nation building, about broad counter insurgency, term insurance, we buy it year to year, force of under 5,000 people the last several years that allows us to have some confidence that we can deal with the terrorism problem that we know is very real in afghanistan. that's what i think biden can be faulted for. he traded the term insurance policy for what at least in the last week has been chaos. we'll see if things stabilize now with the taliban taking over, holding press conferences, but i think that's the weakness in his...