protected their families, and they served with honor. i don t think the american people will forget that. they see it, god sees it, and their sacrifice in honor will not be forgotten. we have a picture of your husband with your children in i know that you are backing up your oldest to go to college. you said that you you wish that you didn t have to do that alone . yes. i always envisioned that he would have been retired by now and i envisioned us sending him off to college together and crying on his shoulder in now i m doing it alone in i just want to make sure that we carry out our duty to afghanistan and i m not doing it alone for no reason. your children, they re dad was a hero in that will never change. wish you good luck. your children are lucky to have such a strong mom in we thank
commander of the combined joint interagency task force in kabul. he is the author of the fight t defend the free world. i m glad to have you with this, glad to have your thoughts on what we re seeing. none of us are glad to see what is playing out on the ground in afghanistan, their shocking takeover of the tele- band. what goes were your mind as you look at that plane, that cargo plane? it s heartbreaking. it s frustrating. i think it s wholly unnecessary that is what is so sad about it. we delivered psychological blow to the afghan security forces into the afghan people far beyond the physical blows that the taliban was capable of delivering. this is by our precipitous withdrawal, i think is the utte lack of planning for what we knew. what we knew would be a humanitarian catastrophe of colossal scale. i want to play this for you, jake sullivan did an interview
it didn t make much sense that decision obviously, the date certain in itself never showed up and prescript it, initiative based on what conditions we wer able to achieve in the number one condition that should have been established in i know our military wanted to establish this, and that is the tallow ba will not take the country over. and i think president biden s response to that would have bee well, if it wasn t, and that responses, wealth that means we ll never get out because the conditions will never be met fo us to be able to ensure that they tallow ban is not queen to take over. i don t agree with that assessment because there are things we could have done to pu in place, resources to make certain that the tallow taliban could not take over. we finally need a commitment here from the president in the determination to see this evacuation mission through.
wait for the president to speak. i was listening to jake sulliva this morning current national security adviser who said the president wants to marshal the international community to this cause in also that he is passionate about human rights i the human rights situation on the ground. your thoughts? it s a complete disconnect. we were never going to win in afghanistan and i blame the general that came year after year to congress in said just a few more thousand troops a couple more billion dollars. we are going to prevail. i blame the intelligence community who kept saying oh, the afghan army, that s really going to be up standing great i then failing to see the collaps of it. i blame our political leaders grateful who wanted a nation billed in the most primitive that had no interest in democracy. most of all i blame people like jake sullivan.
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