will they give one of our american citizens to them? it s a good question. i spoke with a high-level government official in uzbekistan yesterday. they said these are our neighbors. they are calling us to send back to deport almost 600 afghan military personnel of which the one i m talking about is included in. they have to deal with the government whoever it is because they re neighbors. it is a very tenuous situation. we need to evacuate them from there and i m calling on the biden administration to do the right thing and get them to safety. harris: when you look at the pictures now, congressman gallagher, that played out in the last 24 hours and taliban are massing outside the gates of the airport. so far no engagement with our u.s. forces according just moments ago to the pentagon, what does that communicate to you about the enemy? are they really deal makers or is there something else we need to see in all of this? well, i don t trust the taliban and i agree with august
conference by john kirby, another date. now the new date is august 31st. do we have to keep doing this? well, it just goes back to the lack of leadership from president biden. when you telegraph your plan to the enemy basic military strategy 101 don t tell them when, how and what you ll operate and that s what they ve done. we need to focus on evacuating american situations there. i have a constituent married to an american pilot. they are wanting to go back to afghanistan where they face certain death. we have to focus on the tactical execution. it has been a disaster so far. we need to get americans to safety and need to take care of the afghan military personnel and interpreters that we promised we would help. harris: one quick follow up. i m curious now you have brought up the constituents of yours. uzbekistan and those countries,
scrambling to board any many that will get them out of afghanistan. and just a short time ago it was announced all commercial flights out of kabul have been canceled. well, desperate afghans are crossing the border into neighboring countries. uzbekistan said it detained 84 afghan military personnel at the border some of whom were wounded. and civilians who made it across the border say they are not sure what to do next. translator: i arrived would my family, my wife and five children. i had a one year visa. all my relatives stayed there, i was doing business there, now we re here. can we find a job here or will the war end there and we will go back? we don t know. my business, my house, everything stayed there. about 117,000 displaced afghans are in turkey. and turkey s president says the country will work with pakistan to help stabilize afghanistan
they will probably, i mean, looking at their past record, they will probably stop people from leaving. there are already reports that some 84 afghan troops have gone across the border into tujeek astan, and the taliban asked for them back. the governments share a border with afghanistan, so they re in a bit of a catch-22 about what to do. but that s the point. the afghan the taliban government the taliban rulers are asking for afghan military personnel to be sent back to the country, to be answerable for working with the americans. and that will spread to the rest of the afghans as well. i mean, i have met a lot of afghans here in iran that say it s simply untenable to live under the taliban. they won t let you leave. and they won t let you live your own life in their own country. so it s a very tough situation for them. ali, do you have a sense of
didn t make any sense. i don t want to make the same mistake in afghanistan. there s about 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, 4,000 other nato troops. by the end of next year, it s suppo supposed to be down to a few protecting the embassy. they have spent 15 years training all these afghan military personnel and police. but they can t get their act together. i don t think we want to we don t need to build up the force. i m a believer we should use specific forces to go after the taliban. but i wouldn t draw this or say we re going to have a thousand there by the end of the obama presidency. this is a place you sit down. i served on the armed services committee for 18 years. i ve been involved in defense issues all my life in the pentagon after 9/11 helping to bring technology people in. this is a place you sit down and figure out the right strategy. if you start predicting what they are going to be without