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Business that things have to be repeated. can t just say things once. so for the record, biden didn t get us into this situation. okay. many presidents have a hand in what should be blame if you want to look at afghanistan as a failure. certainly, the most recent iteration was trump deciding to negotiate with the taliban. okay, that absolutely undercut the confidence of the government and hastened the decline. and there is no question that while biden was dealt a bad hand, he played his cards poorly as well. so that s how we got here. but going forward is going to be the true tale of the tape. and the idea of what the secretary of state just said is just hard to believe. why? because the taliban s not our friend. it is an oppressive regime. it s not about cooperating. they are in control, and now thanks to you, they are much ....
Continued thinking it was working. but all that did is lay the foundation for this disaster that has unfolded here now. one more point for each of you. first, colonel, is it fair to say that it has come to nothing when we haven t had another major foreign terrorist attack since 9/11? and one part has to be the presence in afghanistan. well, see, i actually argue pretty vehemently it had nothing to do with the troops in afghanistan. look, i was there when there were 150,000 u.s. and nato troops, and there were vast section of the country in 2011 that we had no acknowledgment in at all. we had no power, no influence in. so if the taliban owning a piece of terrain was going to open it up to the taliban or al qaeda or any other group, it would have already happened years ago, and then what about syria? what about iraq, what about pakistan? all these other places, somalia, where there s plenty of opportunity, but we have to defend against those places as well, and we do for the very rea ....
Says those who were left behind will still get out, even without u.s. troops being there. even with them being in the grip of one of the most barbaric groups in the world. here is the secretary of state. if an american in afghanistan tells us that they want to stay for now, and then in a week or a month or a year, they reach out and say i ve changed my mind. we will help them leave. we have worked intensely to evacuate and relocate afghans who worked alongside us and are in particular risk of reprisal. we have gotten many out. but many are still there. we will keep working to help them. our commitment to them has no deadline. we will hold the taliban to its pledge to let people freely depart afghanistan. the taliban has committed to let anyone with proper documents leave the country in a safe and orderly manner. you know, you learn in this business that things have to be ....
Talking about, but what you want to do is have the minimum number of people at the explosion site if there s an ied going to come. but i d also remind your viewers that this is what our soldiers and marines have been doing for 20 years. yeah. they ve been in a target rich environment for terrorists for decades. and this is what our soldiers are exposed to almost every day they ve operated in iraq and afghanistan. it s one of things i think it s such an important point and we said this earlier but it bears repeating, those who died that day, yesterday, they knew that there was a very real threat. in fact, americans had been warned to leave the area, and yet, i mean, it just shows the you know, the dedication that they have and the, you know, the sense of mission that they were still there exposed knowing full well there s a very likely chance of there being an ....
Devastation that, you know, his family will feel for the rest of their lives. it s just it s just another it s just horrific. it is. it s obviously incredibly sad and as we get the rest of the names, it s, you know, going to be repeated over and over and our sorrow will pail into comparison to the family s. you know, it is a reminder. i had heard somebody earlier mention, you know, while it s extremely tragic that these 13 people were killed. you know, what were they killed doing? they were killed saving lives. saving american lives. saving green card holders lives. saving the lives of people that, you know, worked with us in afghanistan. and so, while of course we certainly wish this was far different, i think it s important to note that this was something that, you know, people often say is that death in vain. it s a death we certainly wish didn t happen but i think you can look at what we were accomplishing and say there are many lives that are going to be touched and generat ....