actual countries that they were supposed to be in charge of, and what happened? every single african country that they tried that with, it just spiraled into negative growth, chaos, and destruction. and it took them decades to figure out they just needed to reverse it. and remember, people like nancy pelosi or dianne feinstein or gavin newsom, these ideas they embraced, their kids and grandkids go to prep school and are isolated, live in gated communities, so this is all an experiment on the lower and middle classes and they are always immune from the consequences of their own bankrupt ideologies. jesse: that s true, they live in those gated communities. we reported last week that nancy pelosi owns 16 acres and a very nice neighborhood out there, and is obviously fenced in, but you know, doesn t matter. people fighting over crumbs, not her problem. vdh has a new book out, i want everyone to check it out. thank you for coming on primetime, as always. thank you, jesse.
general milley, was this an extraordinary success? there s two operations, senator. just yes or no. i have a lot of questions. was this an extraordinary success? senator, with all due respect, there s two operations. there s the retrograde, which miller was in charge of, and the n neo, which centcom was in charge of. the retrograde was executed and ended by mid-july with a residual force to defend the embassy. the neo you and i have discussed this. would you use the term extraordinary success for what took place in august in afghanistan? that s a noncombatant evacuation. one of the other senators said it very well, it was a logistical success but a strategic failure. and i think those are two different here s the problem. i think the whole world knows this is the cover of economist magazine, biden s debacle. that had stories in it, articles in it called the fiasco in
0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a
long-term progress. if this was a building all thes lives were lost, there would be an investigation, but here, people who are in charge of, officials are being promoted through a couple reason there s no accountability. he s really upset about it and passion about it. he lost classmates in afghanistan. others were seriously hurt, not to mention mental problems like ptsd that are also very serious. i think the needs to be some accountability here. this kind of money in this kind of lives lost this many years and it falls within a month. at all plays and the whole military industrial complex. so let s unpack that bag. you are never going to defeat terrorism at large. original mission was to go out there and get the bad guys that harmed us. the taliban is going to go into another organization and they were going to try to nation build and build schools and the mission changed from getting people that attacked to buildin
long-term progress. if this was a building all thes lives were lost, there would be an investigation, but here, people who are in charge of, officials are being promoted through a couple reason there s no accountability. he s really upset about it and passion about it. he lost classmates in afghanistan. others were seriously hurt, not to mention mental problems like ptsd that are also very serious. i think the needs to be some accountability here. this kind of money in this kind of lives lost this many years and it falls within a month. at all plays and the whole military industrial complex. so let s unpack that bag. you are never going to defeat terrorism at large. original mission was to go out there and get the bad guys that harmed us. the taliban is going to go into another organization and they were going to try to nation build and build schools and the mission changed from getting people that attacked to buildin the country.