[applause] sacrifice of men and women in uniform. defended our freedom in that nation over the last 20 years. that was, in my opinion, the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country. we have never had an embarrassment like afghanistan. [applause] it was a national embarrassment. you have got north korea testing ballistic missiles, you have iran building a bomb. you have russia invading ukraine. but, make no mistake, none of that would have happened had we not had that debacle in afghanistan. bret: so i mean it is a talking point for a number of candidates, pretty much all of them. all of them. and, you know, this hearing today, the reason we had it is because republicans took over the house. and i think we should thank representative issa, especially, for holding this forum and the investigations that are going on in two committees because of this republican takeover there s a lot we don t know about what the administration knew going
Than that, and for us to say it s a territorial dispute, that s not the case, and for us to stay neutral. it s in the best interest of america and of national security for ukraine to win. we have to see it through and finish it. if i misspoke, i meant to say trump says one thing but you know what i meant to say. you have russia invading ukraine, and north korea testing ballistic missiles, and we have chaos everywhere, right? none of that would have happened had we not had that debacle in afghanistan. the idea that we left bagram air force base in the middle of the night without telling our allies that stood shoulder to shoulder with us for decades because we asked them to be there.
Neutral. it is in the best interests of america, it s in the best interests of our national security for ukraine to win. we have to see this through. we have to finish it. if i misspoke, i meant to say that trump refused to say whether he believes ukraine should win the war. but you obviously knew what i was talking about. you have called putin a, quote, evil tyrant and you ve said he cannot be trusted. how do you deal with a foreign leader this you cannot trust? well, first of all, let s look at where we are. so you ve got russia invading ukraine. you ve got north korea testing ballistic missiles. you ve got iran trying to build a bomb. we ve got chaos everywhere. right? but none of that would have happened had we not had that debacle in afghanistan. the idea that we left bagram air force base in the middle of the night without telling our allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for decades because we asked them to be there. think about what that told our friends. more impor