and she asked him about the idea of retaking the bagram air base where the firepower was centered. here is out exchange. you looking 15 - 20000 additional forces and most importantly you would reinitiate a war with the taliban but that s what would happen the isis in the taliban and all the casualties, et cetera. i know a lot of people are talking about it but i wonder if the support would ve been there if that had been done i personally think the military did not want that. the military conditions wanted what we did but we had only a couple of thousand troops on the ground in afghanistan these last months and there had been no casualties and the taliban -controlled 0 of the country until they started their rampage in may.