getting to her point about the united states being anathema around the world right now because of what happened primarily today, i m not sure that s true. when president biden went to the nato summit in june, at the time nato countries had about 10,000 troops in afghanistan. as we were drawing down there 13,000 to 2500 under the trump orders. those countries like the u.k., turkey, georgia, italy at the time of the nato summit were upset that president biden had not coordinated with them as much as they thought they should have in terms of the draft drawdown. in talking with these partners, several numbers mountain military government, these were my former partners, as u.s. army military commander, they were all in agreement with the drawdown. they welcomed it. they were ready for it and they thought it was time. they also had spent 20 years in
that was never going to be a government in our image. and with that, when you have a government that is not trusted by its soldiers and that was what was happening. there were some very good afghan national army soldiers that fought for their country. quite a fe lives. the special operations forces within afghanistan were very good. but they lost faith and confidence in their government, and that, don, is a recipe for disaster whetn that happens. getting to robin s point about the united states being anathema around the world right now because of what happened, i think, primarily today, i m not sure that s true. you know, when president biden went to the nato summit in june, at the time, nato countries had about 10,000 troops in afghanistan as we were drawing down from 13,000 to 2,500 under the trump orders. now, those countries like