of this terrorist group. when i talk to white house officials, they re also underscoring that. as you said this is a civil war but there is some american interest in the idea that now america has to really be responsible for trying to go after the people who came after our u.s. service members today. that s going to be a hard task and one that president biden is going to have to have a challenge with, especially as there are all sorts of political challenges tied to this decision. but he s sticking with it and taking responsibility for but it s one that s a challenge. it s a challenge, ben, because i don t think there is other than a few hawks on the republican side and maybe some in the common, there s no hunger to restart another war here, to pour thousands of troops into afghanistan. and so that is indeed a delicate balance, on the one hand. if you could comment on that and the afghan you break it, you bought it. you want to be the government, you re the government. this is thei
issue. we ll go after who we need to go after. we can do it as we ve done in other countries. then we have to explore and test what the taliban is going to be like going forward. absolutely. we manage, i think, to get osama bin laden and, you know, in quite difficult circumstances when we were determined to do it, we do it and our enemies ought to know that. ben rhodes, thank you, yamiche alcindor, thank you. clint watts, thank you. there were already calls from the usual war hawks in the republican party for an increased military presence in afghanistan. sabre rattling that not only is the war not over, but now is the time to ramp it up. it will take troops on the ground but the military can do it. congratulations. the endless war just got fired up again. because if isis and al qaeda s job was just simply to get us out of afghanistan and then we can all live in our respective corners peacefully, you know
trillions of dollars there let alone lives of americans and the afghan military, some of them who served quite gallantly and lost their lives. so it s unfortunate it s unfortunate we re focused on the humanitarian crisis but it s unfortunate that we can t have an honest debate about what s happened in afghanistan for the last 20 years without being overwhelmed by what s happening on a day-to-day basis there. if you look at it rationally, it s been absurd and crazy. and we can t keep doing it. i have to play this sound bite. i don t have to but i m going to go ahead and do it. i don t like to hear from him, but here is donald trump. it s just an ironic little statement. here he is, let s just play it. we took out the founder of isis, al baghdadi, and then of course soleimeni. now just soap ooungd, he is large by many, many times than
people there. we have the rising capability to keep them from going after us. ladies and gentlemen, it was time to ending a 20-year war. thank you so much. what i took from that, yamiche, including in the face of fox news attempting to try to get under his skin is that president biden has not changed his mind at all. if anything, this tragedy that we ve just seen occur with 13 dead among our u.s. marines, he s more determined than ever to get the u.s. out of afghanistan. is that a right read on it? that s right, joy. i ve been talking to white house officials all day. they really doubled down on this. this is a devastating day for the country, for the military, and also for president biden. he himself knows the loss of a family member. he talked about the idea of this being a black hole in service member s hearts. but he said all the responsibility for this stops with me but at the same time i inherited a deal with the taliban. what i ve been hearing from white house officials over
courageous. frankly, one of the things we see, too, is that this idea that to even challenge the fact that his life and that everyone there s life was in danger, it is ludicrous and plays into this very extreme republican radicalization that what happened and the 6th was no serious, to call it a tourist event. officers died. people died. and it is it was run of the most it was a domestic terrorist attack that we saw. indeed. and it is interesting because americans i think tend to think of america as cui generous, right? terrorism happened here on january 6th. we are seeing in afghanistan right now a terrorist attack today that killed 13 of our troops, marines and navy a member of the navy. but we re also trying to get as many people out as possible. talk about raising the cap, how can it be done, why should be