i agree with david on one thing. our intelligence has been grotesquely incompetent and it s not just our intelligence be accuracy. the $80 billion a year intelligence bureaucracy but also our four-star politicians like general milley, joint chiefs of staff chairman, and our grotesquely incompetent secretary of defense lloyd austin. there ought to be some bipartisan credibility. the republicans ought to stop cheerleading this military that s led us down so much. not the individual soldiers, not the people on the ground, not at the tactical level but at the strategic level. getting back to donald trump, the afghan government actually was holding out for the biden administration. they were hoping that biden would reverse the pullout. they were not negotiating with the taliban consistent with the agreement. i think donald trump would ve helped them to account and how the taliban to account. he wouldn t give senatorial order which is what joe biden did to abandon bagram.
administration had done a better job at the outset. now i think we have a lot of very talented military and state department personnel working on this evacuation and i do have confidence that they re going to work it out. kevin: i want to push back a bit. david said the trump administration makes the argument that this was based on conditions on the ground. there was no heart out on a specific date that was one of the arguments i heard in my conversations as well. the overarching argument is given what we know and given the brevity of time we have left, where talking about the 31st, right around the corner, is it your belief we will be able to pull this off? are we staring down the barrel of an extension of time whether we want to extend it or not. we are not going to pull it off but i think president biden will get us out by the 31st. that has happened very quickly. the 31st is on tuesday, and that s the date by which the last helicopter full of marines were soldiers has to be out
airport the other day. if we have taken out a bad guy, great. it seems like we are back to the drone wars where we are taking out contacts of dubious quality, killing a lot of people. you have to wonder if it s that military industrial complex covering its butt. kevin: david and christian, think is much for joining us. let s examine how the media s questioning of the president has changed in the wake of the chaotic afghanistan withdrawal. here s fox news media analyst and host of fox media buzz, howie kurtz. the devastating bombing in kabul is the latest evidence that the media s aggressive coverage of the ongoing afghanistan disaster has been on target. it briefly muted a growing refrain among some media liberals who praised president biden for withdrawing u.s. forces in evacuating
attack. i expect there will be more attacks like this, drone strikes by the u.s. military against isis-k. keep in mind that the taliban did warn us that isis-k was going to do that. the u.s. seems to be getting some good intelligence from the taliban. the taliban still seems committed to fighting against isis-k. kevin: david makes some important points, christian. intelligence on the ground, a lot more difficult given the lack of manpower that we have. the fact we are getting some of this intelligence which obviously panned out on thursday unfortunately it still didn t prevent the loss of life. we have seem to have gotten more intelligence here today. i have about a minute. i want to get your take, christian, on what you draw from the drone strike. should we draw from that that this is a significant move by the biden administration that they pulled off something big? or isn t much ado about nothing or somewhere in between?