line on this. well, if you knew that they were going to take all of that equipment over and there wasn t going to be any success, then why didn t you take that equipment out of their hands? brian: exactly. why didn t you get rid of it? they are trying to play it both ways and nobody is buying it. brian: congressman, get this there is a situation now where there are americans outside of kabul and there are allies to americans outside of kabul. people that helped you outside of kabul. we are now according to reports, there is a ring outside of the airport that won t let anyone inside and the 82nd has just landed and trying to secure the airport. please play this out? i thought they were out of there, going to put it behind us? we are in a fight. there is going to be a standoff. what are we going to do? well, the idea coming from the administration that if they say listen, people, taliban that have been fighting us for 20 years, if do you what have you been doing for the last 20 yea
we never won it that s the problem, brian, having been there. there wasn t anything to win. after we went and killed them. we could have a small footprint to do that but, frankly, after the navy seals killed bin laden, that was about our mission was complete there. and we kept trying to build a national army that didn t exist and we knew it that s an intelligence dod failure and now we have thousands, tens of thousands of weapons, heavy weapons that will fall into the hands of the taliban, helicopters, vehicles, because we built something we knew couldn t last. it looked good on paper in some pentagon power briefing oh look the afghan army has 300,000 troops. we believed it to the end when we should have known without our support and without payment, the taliban would the more motivated legitimate force would carry the day. and that s why the airport is surrounded. we have troops in harm s way trying to defend people and evacuate and others who can t get there the amount of texts i
ainsley: biggest fear taliban is taking over that entire region. now they are heading to the airport. won t let any of these americans or afghans get on planes to get out. and then when do they come here? that s so scary. brian: absolutely. 2500 left. now had to put 7,000 back on the outskirts another 2,000 to 6,000 to go in. for those of you who wanted the war to end how it ends matter because now it looks like it might be reigniting unless we let all the americans and allies die at the hands of the taliban. those your choices. still ahead, president biden addresses the world as the taliban seeks control of the afghanistan. what do the american voters think of his remarks? we are going to toot kyles on the commander-in-chief.
weekend joins us. army veteran who served in afghanistan and gitmo this is deeply personal to him. pete, we also understand we are in a conflict. we might pretend we are out. but now we have the 82nd airborne come in. we have 8,000 right now there is about 3500. about 8,000. and the taliban have decided not to let anyone in the airport. we have media on the outside. let alone the people on the outside of kabul. how does this play out? pete: anyone knows, anyone s guess. it is a disaster. it was entirely predictable. i mean that earnestly. when i was in afghanistan, i was the senior counter insurgency structure at our counter insurgency academy that was 10 years ago. my job was to study the taliban. owas to study the insurgency. was to study what they were trying to do population. the writing was on wall in 2011 and 2012 before that only legitimate ebb at this time good entity. i don t mean good i mean legitimate entity in afghanistan
after the disaster that unfolded on their watch. don t buy it. what they have been selling us for 20 years didn t work. steve: you know, because the images are so bad, pete, you know, the white house and the state department is in damage control mode. the secretary of state blinken yesterday got on the phone and called united kingdom, china, india, pakistan, russia, turkey just. why? steve: had to explain, hey, listen, you know, apparently this is why we did it because he didn t have a good answer. pete: here is another lie of the afghan war. that we were part of a coalition. i had a patch on my shoulder called 9 isap. we called it i saw americans fighting. there were 50 flags at the embassy. 50 flags at the airport of countries that were supposed to be art pa of this coalition. do you know how many of them fought? one. the united states of america. sure the brits had some good troops. brian: australia. pete: i worked with good australian troops.