us what success looks like. i think that s exactly right. unfortunately it seems that the president was posed with two bad options and one mediocre option. he was presented with the option of either losing pathetically by leaving, losing stupidly by putting in contractors instead of soldiers, or just kicking the can around. he made the only logical choice he could, which is kick the can around. but when you look at insurgencies and counterinsurgerien i counterin e counterinsurgery encys, it tends to end, if you re an intervening power, you re able to work together with the host nation, build capacity, and leave. had the president been presented with three good options, they would have looked like each of those different outcomes. and you can evaluate those on their merits. i hope that s the next step in what the national security
yeah, it s going to be pretty gruesome. yeah, it s europe again. you know, what can we do? i think there is. i think there s at least a four prong policy response here for the united states to be involved in. first of all, we already mentioned really populated areas, you have to have some basic defenses against this sort of attack. just like you would have metal detectors, you have to have bollards against vehicles. second, the u.s. has to help build capacity in europe to speak across nations. you re opposed to pushing in that direction, but they need the u.s. help. this is still an issue. third, i think the europeans have to look at shan again ability to travel without a passport. in other attacks that has been rt case. last but not least given our political environment have to continue to engage this counter violent extremism in populations and that s why people in the counterterrorism community have been to concerned about some of the administration s choices in not funding or
there were certain parts of this coalition that are going to have a lot to say about feeling taken for granted, not invested in properly,ette, and i think that those are the kinds of things we ll have to talk about. did you think it was a failure of organization or a failure of the candidate? i think listen, i think this latino surge that materialized but only barely could have been much bigger if people if there was money from the beginning saying we re going to have to invest and build capacity. you ll talk to people on the ground in nevada and colorado and florida. and the great online organizers. ask them how much money they got. they ll tell you very little. you also wonder what joe biden is thinking tonight as he looks at this and looks at the results. and also a next generation of democrats. what are they thinking tonight? maybe you can talk about that, van. is there a next generation of
now [ applause ] that was an enormous achievement made because of america s armed forces. but as we move to a train and advise mission in afghanistan, our reduced presence there allows us to more effectively address emerging threats in the middle east and north africa. so earlier this year i asked my national security team to develop plan for a network of partnerships. today as part of this effort i m calling on congress to support a new counterterrorism partnerships fund of up to $5 billion which will allow us to train, build capacity, and facilitate partner countries on the front lines. these he will sources will give us flexibility to fulfill different missions including
syria is important. who are watching what is happening in iraq as this seck tar yan issues moves into there and into lebanon and destabilized in jordan, why have we been so slow, so inept in so many ways at helping build capacity of this opposition that we have said publicly that we support? well, senator, it s a worthy and important question. i ve had a number of different meetings with the opposition over the course of the months now since i came in in february. beginning with a meeting in room and subsequently in instan bull and amman, jordan. the opposition one has to remember, as little as a year ago, there was no great clarity to the structure of that