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rescue americans stranded in kabul. her family is stranded in afghanistan. the white house said they will get every american out. you could quibble over the word stranded. that woman feels stranded. bill: with us now for reaction senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. thank you for your time and good morning to you. what has the administration told you? well, first let me say this is one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in american history. i think it s important to remember where we were a few months ago before the president s reckless decision to leave. we only had 2500 troops there. we hadn t lost a single american person, military personnel in a year. the taliban, barbarians were not in charge of the country. we were keeping the lid on. al qaeda was not there. so the decision to pull out was a huge mistake in my opinion. having made that decision, you
mind. but if you want credit as a speaker, as an author, a journalist, or as a diplomat, isn t it too little, too late? a lot of people supported the war in iraq, actually. not many of them i think actually decided to write an entire book about how they were wrong. that s something i spent a lot of time doing. i didn t know how to continue writing about american foreign policy credibly unless i actually figured out how i had gotten so wrong. probably also had to do with the fact that a family member of mine spent a lot of time in iraq, in the u.s. military. i think colin powell was in retrospect, sure, in retrospect, would have been great if he had resigned in a blaze of glory. sadly, he was he ended up being part of a process that led to one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in american history. well, i mean, it was obviously a mistake made broadly by people across the political spectrum both within the bush administration and outside it. and i think it s something that