get them all cleared. make it so that if this has to be done in two days or three days, we can do it. have the flights, the planes ready, all that. instead, it does feel like, understandable that the whole thing collapsed much faster than anyone expected and that itself is something we should talk about. but to have not made contingency plans for that and to not have the evacuation part is the most important thing. if he can still get that right, chris, if eventually he is he manages to get out, not just the americans, but the thousands, tens of thousands of afghans how do you do that? you know you have these guys on the ground now who are going to be hunting them. they say it s going to be gradual, the taliban commander, we ve never seen that. they ve been making encroachments for years as you pointed out earlier. i really believe that we have to discount the talk. yeah, we re going to try and get them out.
in 2001 because they left so quickly. we raised the flag again and let me tell you two things, the mission we had was to ensure there would never be another catastrophic event. if you had told us 20 years later there would be fewer than 200 people killed in international terror events in america over the next 20 years, we would say, you re nuts. if you had asked a second and final question, the debate will have in 20 years is whether we re successful building a nation in afghanistan, and that s the debate americans will hinge their judgment on, i would say you re nuts. we did. americans, the military, the agency, the state department, the american people who funded this, we did what we were told to do. enough with people saying this was a disaster. chris, it was not. we were there to stop another 9/11. so now if we leave, the question is, are americans as safe now as they were six months ago?
and we did. we have iran four years closer to a nuclear bomb. syria, syria is not just the tragedy of 30,000 civilians being killed by the military but also a strategically significant player for america. the president s policies throughout the middle east began with an apology tour and pursue a strategy of lead be from behind and this strategy is unraveling before our very eyes. bill: what about that now? debate reaction from americans on the front lines of afghanistan. and what was said about the war on terror? fox news senior military analyst lieutenant colonel oliver north watched the debate with marines in southern afghanistan streaming from helmand province now, colonel. last year when we were in this part of helmand province there were four battalions providing security. today there is one with which he
commander-in-chief. reporter: difficult to know whether or not that was political theater or genuine motion but it was at a point where the president did seem to be very visibly irritated with governor romney. bill: john, thanks for the setup there, john roberts in leesburg, virginia. she has more on the same topic. martha: let s get context exactly what the president said in the rose garden on september 12th the day after the attack in libya. this is exactly what he said. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values we stand for. today we mourn for more americans that represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justices done for this terrible act and make no must take, justice will be done. martha: all right. nearly two weeks later at the u.n., the president continued to bring up the anti-islam video that we now
what happened, that this was an act of terror. reporter: in fact here is what president obama said in the rose garden on september 12th. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. today we mourn four more americans who represent the very best of the united stites of america. reporter: so to be clear the president that day did not tell the american people benghazi had been an act of terror as he claimed in the debate, he indirectly implied as much. crowley told her own network she was trying to move things along and romney in the main was correct. i knew the president has said these acts of terror won t stand or whatever the whole quote was. i think actually because right after that i did push around and say but you were