0 why wasn t action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. i don t mean to interrupt you, but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment, because even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces, you re expecting the ghani government to remain. in december of 2019, the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately express
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just going to be a slave. we talk a lot about slavery in this country. we say oh, you know, we don t believe in slavery we don t stand for that the united states stands for freedom. but we are endorsing and, in fact, paying for slavery with our own tax dollars. and we didn t have to do any of this. the united states a super power. we did not have to negotiate with the taliban to put our tail between our legs and withdrawal from the country. we didn t have to leave the afghan air force with no maintenance contractors at the very same moment. we didn t have to take away air support for their highly mobile special operations capability that was keeping everything together in the fight in that country. there were thousand choices we made. we still do not have to leave all those weapons $80 billion worth in the hands of the taliban. no one has asked the biden administration, general milley, general mackenzie, general donahue, right, to these people who who could have done everything differe
show you just a split second of his genius. if you could put up that still photo you just had on before i came on. uh-huh. and yes. there we go. yes. this is the last soldier out. all right? this is general donahue. and he is coming up the ramp of the c-130. there is literally no other american soldier behind him there at the airport. he is the last one out. if you are the last one out and you are what you are leaving behind is the mortal on me from the last 20 years look at him. he s coming up the ramp with not what you do is you have to keep your back not to the enemy. you turn around and you back up the ramp with your gun pointed out because there is nobody there to protect you. yet he knew he was safe, had his
back to the taliban, and walking up that ramp. how did he know he wasn t going to get shot, wasn t going to be the last man out dying going up that ramp in he s looking forward, not turned around. the reason for that is we have a commander in chief right now who figured it out. he had to pivot very quickly because he did not expect the taliban to take over the country that quickly. he he had to he had to negotiate, he had his team negotiating with the taliban to make sure 124,000 people could get out safely so that not one of those planes would be shot down out of the air, and he had to make sure that the very last soldier, general donahue, could walk up that ramp safely, without having to turn around to see if he was going to be shot by the taliban. who did that? commander in chief joe biden did that. he and his team negotiated with people that i would think would
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