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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations is grateful for Germany troop commitment as it becomes the latest country to announce withdrawal of its p

Important. >> secretary austin, you are extremely diplomatic in your answers. i can appreciate that. but this was not a conditions-based withdrawal. and i think all three of you have stated that you made your best opinion known to the president of the united states, he had no conditions other than to get our people out of afghanistan, which he failed at because we still have americans as well as afghan partners in afghanistan. thank you, mr. chair. i yield back. >> thank you, senator ernst. >> this hearing is two hearings at once, one on the question of should we leave afghanistan and if we sh...

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...

Signposted, but that does not mean it is right. if you look at the troop numbers, you say it is a serious troop commitment, look, you know, one soldier in a country can be a serious troop commitment depending on what they're doing. in this case, it was 2500 us troops. that is about half the crew of a us aircraft carrier. imean... but the biden point, surely, and you've spoken to lots people in washington dc to try to get your mind around what is in his mind, the biden argument seems to be is it was not going to stay at 2500. if he had said, we are staying, the taliban would have said, that's f...