Regime under control, because if he doesn t, you know, he s toast. there will be a palace revolt and he s done. and he he has to really walk a fine line, because he put himself into a situation now that is very difficult for him to get out of. if he thinks he can occupy ukraine and declare victory, he is wrong, because i ve heard other people say what i said right when this thing started, ukraine will be defeated. you cannot, you cannot defeat a country when you fight the entire population. lost vietnam, lost afghanistan, soviets lost afghanistan. this would be a very prolonged, very bloody partisan kind of fight where too many, you know, russian soldiers would be killed and come home and eventually
Har agreement that president trump signed in 2020. this deal negotiated between the trump administration and the taliban without allies or even the afghan government present promised the end of us in afghanistan and contractors. with virtually no stipulations. the taliban with momentum on there and no incentives used the final year of the trump administration to escalate violence and begin its fateful march toward kabul. despite colossal effort in all add min itions we were not able to build an afghan government or a force capable of defeating the taliban. they fought bravely in the face of massive casualties but faced with the loss of american
bill: the billions in u.s. military equipment. the finest in the world that we left behind. some disabled. a lot of it now in the hands of the taliban. dana: today s hearing is expected to touch on the fate of afghan women. the taliban moving to erase decades of congress resuming public beatings, amputations and executions. bill: unknown numbers of americans and u.s. allies trapped in the afghanistan after the president made a promise to get them all out safely. dana: we ll speak to one of the lawmakers who will question the generals. first jennifer griffin who helped us walk our way through those six weeks is at the pentagon. this will be the first time, as you mentioned, that we ve heard under oath from general milley, defense secretary austin and the marine general frank mckenzie who led the withdrawal efforts. democrats are likely to used the senate armed services committee to question who lost afghanistan, looking back at
In the fall of 2020, my analysis was that an accelerated withdrawal without meeting specific and necessary conditions risks losing the substantial gains made in afghanistan damaging u.s. worldwide credibility and could precipitate a general collapse of the afghan government and military resulting in a complete taliban takeover or general civil war. that was a year ago. my assessment remained consistent throughout. based on my advice and the advice of the commanders, then secretary of defenses per submitted a memorandum on november 9 recommending to maintain u.s. forces at a level between 2500 and 4500 in afghanistan until conditions were met before further reduction. two days later, on november 11
Congress must set clear and defined goals for the use of military force abroad and place a limit and against whom we can continue military action without a new authorization in order to finally put a stop to endless wars and prevent them in the future. second there should be a comprehensive rigorous and objective audit on the war over 20 years. we spent lots of money and lost lives. i commend the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction nor its oversight of the afghanistan reconstruction. but i do have questions beyond that. first general milley in your testimony you said and you mentioned that there are many lessons to be learned. what did you mean by that statement? i have think senator, thank you. i think there is a series of strategic lessons to be learned and i would echo some of the