casualties. american men and women would be fighting and dying again in afghanistan and president biden was not prepared to send additional forces or ask any american personnel to do that over the period ahead. there have been questions raised whether we should have drawn down our embassy and evacuated afghan allies earlier. these are reasonable questions. we did dramatically accelerate sid process, move out substantial amount of applicants and families, but the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave, made a passionate case we should not conduct mass evacuation less we trigger loss of confidence in the government. our signaling support for the government obviously didn't save the government, but this was a considered judgment. when you conclude 20 years of military action in a civil war in another country with impacts of 20 years of decisions that piled up, you have to make a lot of hard calls, none with clean
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