robin, i have time for a quick response if you want to. first of all, remember that the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan led to the demise of the soviet union or contributed mightily to it as well as the end of communist rule. i didn t say anathema. the united states is still the west s major power, but it s going to take a lot for other countries to commit to create a coalition to fight alongside us. this is you know, this is a moment you need leadership, and the united states looked like its political, diplomatic, military, economic plan for afghanistan failed. yeah. plenty of discussion points that we need to hit on, and we will as we continue. thank you both. i appreciate it. why the afghan military failed so dismally, and why did the u.s. ever believe that they could defeat the taliban as the country sinks into chaos? i know my decision will be criticized, but i would rather take all that criticism than
this country and they were seeing, hey, it is about time that we take the so-called training wheels off and let the afghan army defend their own country. let the afghan government run the operations they need to run to protect their women and their pop l.s.u. but that didn t happen. the contributed considerably. i have time for a quick response. first of all, remember that the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan led to the demise of the soviet union & or incredibled mightily as well as the end of communist rule. i didn t say anathema. the united states was still the west major power but it will take a lot for other countries to commit to create a kind of coalition to fight alongside us. this is a moment you need leadership and the united states looked like its political,