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Kind of a withdraw from afghanistan are the people already tied to the money-making scheme. why would they want to have a grand strategy that cuts down on their work. unless you focus on that part, nothing is going to change. >> tucker carlson: not just the defense contractors, the generals work for when they leave, it's the bureaucracy at the pentagon, not focused on war fighting, but on -- >> it's in our ecosystem of work which is produced and which we'd like from schools to universities to can kind of subject they're studying and the research they're doing. and then where they're working. t...

To our national security. decades if not hundreds of years, if not thousands of years of institutional knowledge and experience of war fighting, i've got a lot of text messages from my former colleagues who, of course, will get out. you are talking about senior leaders with massive amounts of knowledge? there is a reason the military uses retention bonuses at that level, right around the 20 year, they know they are going to lose some, but they have to keep a lot of its additional knowledge and leadership that's built up over years. this is a potential dangerous impact on our readiness, if thos...

Are, it hurts. >> the blatant lies and misinformation from the highest people in our government on a daily basis throughout this entire, you know, drawdown, pullout, whatever you want to call it. it's disgusting. >> when you start factoring politics into war fighting, bad combination, right? when you look at the wars from the past, yes there was some of that. but not what it is today. our founding fathers didn't intend for politics to be a career. if you made it a career, you probably suggested -- probably sucked at doing anything else in life. if you have someone in 1973, whatever you were do...

Maybe we need a new approach because 20 years of war fighting with the greatest army and greatest troops around and all this technology and we weren't able to win. >> to ask ourselves what is what is winning, the united states as a very specific role in the world and if we walk away from afghanistan, we saw the story before coming in 2011 all the troops came home from iraq and they want up right back there in 2014 because of foolish policy, we need to go up, there are people in this world who want to do us harm, we need to accept that and ultimately the nypd didn't talk about winning the war a...

Thoughts yesterday? someone who's been involved in the beginning through the bush administration, what were your thoughts yesterday when it was announced this mission has ended? >> my own reactions, willie, were a mixture of relief and sadness. relief that obviously our troops are out and so many people are saved. but sadness i don't believe it had to be this way. and i think that has to do with how we fought this war. i think a lot of critical decisions over the last 20 years were simply wrong, were unfortunate. obviously some of the decisions surrounding the withdrawal, the tactical decision...