it makes no sense whatsoever in terms of what reality is. it appears he s living in an alternate reality. biden did claim in his own words , al qaeda is now gone in afghanistan. general keane, before he spoke you said you wanted to hear a very specific mission as to how we re going to get those american home. here is what he said on that. his promise. listen. let me be clear. any american that wants to come home, we will get you home. make no mistake, this evacuatio mission is dangerous. it involves risk to armed forces , and it must be conducted under difficult circumstances. he went on to say we still don t have an exact number of americans they are. we know the pentagon said they didn t know, we know the state department didn t have an exact number. in joe biden said we wanted to get a strong number of how many americans our there.
i quickly wanted to ask you, there s nobody better to talk about this then you. you have covered this at the pentagon for the 20 years we ve been there. before their we were based in the middle east. have you ever seen in your career, anything handled the wa that this as been handled so far ? i must say i haven t. i ve been going to afghanistan since 1993 so even before the taliban we re formed, i lived i islam a bad pakistan. i never thought i would see the day that the u.s. would not learn from mistakes of the past of what happens with you create a vacuum in the middle east. when you pull out forces overnight which is what we did, setting deadlines arbitrarily ending what shouldn t have been described as a war, but a listening post that the u.s. ha set up two keep paris at bay in to keep the taliban from taking over the government.
taliban would come faster through afghanistan. can you say why after that cabl was issued, the u.s. didn t do more to get america out? there are all kinds of cables , all kinds of advice. if you notice, they range from this group saying that they didn t say it fall when it did fall, but, saying that it would fall, to others saying it wouldn t happen for a long time they would be able to sustain themselves through the end of the year. and made a decision for the buc stops with me. i took the consensus opinion, the consensus opinion was that in fact it would not occur if i occurred until later in the year . it was my decision. and my next is stephanie ramose abc. thank you, mister president. the military has secure the airport as you mentioned, but will use sign off on sending
jennifer griffin, in its amazing . she has been to afghanistan since 1993 covering the pentago for 20 years she lived in the middle east for 20 years, knows the areas, knows the regions, and she said couldn t fact chec it fast enough in real time because there were so many missed statements made by the president i want to know if we have the soundbite keyed up the president said something you might have found a little bit unbelievable where he said there s been no criticism of ou credibility from our allies. this is about america leading the world in our allies agreein with us. i have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world. as spoken with our nato allies who spoke with that nato allies in the secretary of state, our national security adviser has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world in our allies as has the general or excuse me, i keep calling him the general, but secretary of defense. have not seen that. seen the opposite very we ar
and some extent, it has. we are going to have lots of ou friends in allies who are going to be left behind. i have a friend in austin who was deeply involved in afghanistan and sent me a message. his afghan interpreter was take by the taliban, killed, his arm were cut off, in front of his family, his family was slaughtered, the only remaining member of the family is a ten -year-old girl turned over to the taliban. fetzer facing in this country i that is how relieving these men in women who stood with the united states for the last 20 years to remove afghanistan as safe haven for terrorists. 65-70 percent of the population is under the age of 25. those people only know a countr in which women had equal opportunity. education was available a form of democracy was taking root. and they fought for its.