Expired. Id like to have that unanimous consent mr. Quigley, youre recognized, mr. Quigley, youre recognized. Thank you. Madam ambassador, its like a hallmark movie. You ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [ laughter ] it wasnt your preference seven, eight months ago, correct . No, it was not. It wasnt your preference to be the victim of a cemetery campaign, was it . No. It wasnt your preference to be defamed by the president of the United States including today, was it . No. It wasnt your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it . No. You wanted to finish your extended tour, correct . I did. What did you want to do after that . Did you know . I wasnt sure. Theres nothing wrong with georgetown. Its a fine place, right . Its a wonderful place. But its your own choice at the end of the distinguished career after all that. Its not the end of a hallmark movie. Its the end of a really bad Reality Tv Show brought to you by someone who knows a lot about t
disease, hospitalization, and death in most people. n now, immunocompromised people need to be very vigilant about getting these doses as they are recommended but we are still looking at the data and trying to understand how important is this next dose? when does it need to happen? and what kind of long-term benefit are we going to see? so, we are still looking at the data but it s great that these doses are going to be available. i think that is a very prudent thing to do, given that even if ba2 this omicron subvariant doesn t create a very large wave, this virus is going to continue to spread. when it spreads, it has opportunity to mutate and we need to be ready for the next surge. yeah, and as the virus continues to evolve, continues to mutate and perhaps additional subvariants could emerge, are we seeing a scenario that we are going to have to take booster shots the same way we take a flu shot every season? i think it s very reasonable to expect that we ll need to have a re
their head. but i i i want to pick you up on on that, you know, and see it s hard to say what happens, next. but if if the taliban have won, um, you know, how do they go forward here? do they do they, you know, form a government? what about all of the other um ethnic groups that belong to the you know, this country? how do they bring all of those um disparate groups together? yeah, i mean, they re going to have their work cut out for them because it s one thing to be a guerrilla insurgency or to be very effective fighters on the ground. it s another thing to be governors and particularly, when you embody this sort of very, you know, strict islamist many would argue medieval form of islamism, that doesn t create a very large tent. it doesn t embrace a lot of people. you mentioned, the many minorities in afghanistan. the people who are not sunni muslim but shia muslim.
i think it was a bigger danger when we had 2,500 or 3,500 troops in country whether you would see this sort of mass exodus out of bagram air base. i think that was your saigon 75, the closest analogy. now, i think what is happening is you re going to get one of two outcomes. either the afghan government security forces are going to collapse due to the corruption and the leadership problems and then the whole thing may fall to the taliban. i hope it doesn t create a you know, a massive conflict inside the capitol itself. the other scenario is that the afghan government finally rallies the troops that are still together rally and they fight the taliban to a stalemate and then that s when the productive peace talks are going to happen. we ll be watching.
listed a number of actions. i think from my point of view, that doesn t that doesn t create a ukrainian government strategy to interfere in our election. i didn t say that. mr. jordan, please allow the ambassador to answers the question. so i would just say that, you know, u.s. politicians will often criticize policies of foreign counterparts, even perhaps during their elections. you know, this happens in politics, and i think that it doesn t necessarily constitute interference. would you ever write and op-ed about a presidential candidate in ukraine? mr. jordan your time is expired. mr. welch, you re recognized. thank, mr. chairman. i d like everybody here, i m extraordinaire grateful for your