lines, literally, literally carrying afghans to freedom. they were doing it at tremendous risk and cost the lives of 13 americans. if there is anything we need to take away from the withdrawal, it s the remarkable achievement of our troops. i don t want anyone to lose sight of that. yeah, over 121,000 people total evacuated out of kabul over the last several days alone. i think the question, still, though, we heard from central command yesterday, there are between 100 and 200 americans who are still in afghanistan that want to leave. and so the president, if you are measuring him against his own words, did tell abc that u.s. forces would stay in afghanistan until every american who wanted to come home came home. that clearly did not happen. do you think they will be successful bringing those people home? the situation got a lot dicier with the military home. i absolutely believe in the
pentagon and by our state department and by our coalition allies, too. i do have to let you go. i just want to ask again, big picture here, maybe put on your old state department hat here as well. as the world looks at this this morning, as the world looks at this morning where there are no u.s. troops in afghanistan for the first time in 20 years, what do you think the lesson is in terms of american power? i think i don t know that i m qualified to answer that question, john. i think there s going to be a lot of time for historians and acade academics to work their way through that. what i can tell you is we ve learned a lot over the last 20 years and we ve improved a lot of our counterterrorism capabilities, intelligence capabilities. there was progress made in afghanistan. it will be up to the taliban to see what they do with the progress. there s been a lot of progress made. in the course of 20 years of trying to prevent that place from ever being a safe haven again, we did l
question about is there going to be a period of self-reflection. not just for the biden administration and the choices they made when it comes to execution of this, bull for past presidents and really what we learned here, given the u.s. s leaving afghanistan with the taliban back in power, and more powerful than they were 20 years ago. that s what i was trying to get at with john kirby. he talked about the equipment nonoperable. the fact there is a picture of the taliban inspecting u.s. equipment 20 years after the u.s. went in to get rid of the taliban, in part, you know, it shows you what s happened over that time. also, that equipment isn t inoperable. they said they made sure of that. the aircraft, the hum-vs. there s a lot that isn t. to say they don t have anything is obviously they got a lot. also you have john kirby saying, when i asked, is it america s longest wharf? he said yes, right away. seth moulton and others say, look, you can t really say it s
backed media is amplifying afghanistan and republican riffs you might have heard recently. r.t. twitter s account shows an afghan refugee family with military grade weapons on their backs photo shopped. it was posted the day after ex-president trump asked how many tearrrorists bring to america. showing a wolf s sheep in clothing showing putin with terrorists disguised as refugees. a meme asking whether they were trolling biden s love of ice cream, and another refrain, his diminished capacity for decision making. this russia along with the trump campaign in 2020, disinformation campaign confirmed in an abc news report which was initially
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