rest of these programs. bless you for that explanation. we may hold you to it. barry r mccaffrey, we get to come to you and what did you make of the disconnect on display during the testimony today from the advice that these three military men gave the president the advice that the president either says he did not receive, or did not taken. and then we concentrating on the wrong subject? would a 2500 troop contingent have just remain there for five or ten years with at sustainable? well my own view is ha we stayed beyond the 31st of august, the taliban uld have reengaged on the war we would ve had toreinforce, not 2500, but probably ,000 need troops. we would ve kept the afghan government in our force from
the middle east alone. so where would you look first to start bringing them home? let me make a clarification. we don t need large numbers of combat troops conducting wars in areas like afghanistan or iraq, et cetera. we don t need that. that s not what s necessary. we do need we do need bases and stations around the world, we do need people that are stationed in nato. we do need troops that are stationed in the far east, in asia dealing with the concerns that they act as a sign saying not here, the united states is here. we are going to dissuade you from doing anything irrational. but the fighting troops out there shooting, the special forces folks, are needed to deal with the stateless actors.
government money and conservatives ought to be furious about it when we really do need troops in syria to fight isis and iraq to maintain order. this is the kind of stunned that doesn t pass the smell test. harris: you talk about what they will be doing, so this national guard members that are already there are in those backup roles and have had many with the border patrol tell me leadership tell me that that s what their task to do, that s what they will be doing and as you point out, these 5200 likely doing some of those supporting roles as well. whenever you hear judy s argument for why does look so much like a political stunt, what do you say? it is a look to me like a political stunt. he get the impression sometimes that donald trump himself created the caravans. he did not. those thousands of people formed on their own, there are several caravans behind them and to the idea is that something has to be done when they eventually make