ever accounted for when it came to our defense department. ainsley: just five weeks ago joe biden said he doesn t trust the taliban and that was a silly question to the reporter. now the white house says they re willing to transfer power to the taliban with conditions if they uphold rights. steve: they took the power. ainsley: they protect the rights of women and girls. is that a smart move? pete: what condition? what condition are they going to honor? we left. we left and we left with our tail between our legs. we left looking like fools. we left looking weak, unfortunately. and i don t like saying any of those words. but we are on the way out. we are setting conditions? according to whom? it s not going to happen. and so ultimately the taliban will be exactly who they are. the question is, brian, and i think this is an open question. how willing are they to openly work with al-qaeda knowing that connection with al-qaeda and isis would be the nexus by which we would go in start killin
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
the canadians want toed do more. brian: the french. pete: the french wanted to do more but politicians held them back. ultimately not about the troops but political caveat that their assembly sent them with which meant they couldn t actually go out and fight. we are a part of a coalition where every other member of the coalition can t fight except for us. and now we are calling them and asking for their help or explaining something to them? they weren t there for us. they were falsely there with their flag but they weren t invested. it was an american boy out there alongside afghans who can t read, who can t write, who can t count trying to give them a country and ultimately they did the best they could. it s time to leave. we shouldn t have left this way. what a disaster from the biden administration but i don t know what tolls say. brian: for 20 years for people watching, for 20 years there hasn t been a major attack on our homeland, not close. because. pete: true. brian: i would arg
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.
brian: pete, i can answer for you. one of the conditions mike pompeo said openly divorce yourself from al-qaeda. they wouldn t do it. they would jump around and not say it we understand side by side right now and more are going to flood into kabul to celebrate this big victory over the world super power the united states of america. we also understand this just maybe if you go back to afghanistan you might remember them. rany next gitmo guy he got out of gitmo, do you know why? he told the state department shop keeper his dad was sick answered worked with measures. americans. that was able to get him out. number two, i think it s important to point out admiral kirby said on another network that he is working to get everybody out with american visas. i m not sure i would feel good about that because there are 80,000 applications. 80,000 applications. the people in kabul can t move. can you imagine if you in kandahar or herat what are you going to possibly going to do?