these various states which are breeding grounds for radical islamist terrorists. they seek this ideology because it gives them meaning and purpose in their life. that has been very challenging for us to deal with. and in trying to change those conditions which breed this ideology. going forward here, in my judgment, yes, i agree with ari, we certainly want the president s decision to be the right one, that afghanistan is not going to become a breeding ground for future attacks on the united states. we are going to be challenged to be able to track and identify the terrorists that ll be growing up in afghanistan because with we don t have the presence. that s obvious to anybody looking at that. attacking something that we identify is not going to be as challenging. tracking it will really be the issue going forward. and we re going to have to maintain that vigilance. i think today is a day of remembrance, certainly, and
weren t born there and don t even know about it, perhaps outside of a history book. does that worry you? it isn t so much our generation, it s the jihadist generation, newborn, young, ideaistic wanting to strike at us, at some cave it could be in yemen, could be iraq, it could be afghanistan. they re going to look at new york city, where we defunded the police, and domestic terrorists, rioted, shooting arrests and basically streets turned over to a criminal element. neil: you ve argued that that crime far bigger immediate issue right now. and it s still, still pretty bad. it is, but the number one issue is police department that has to protect us from the international attack. remember it got so bad you had former police commissioner kelly here, that they decide today set up their outposts
know his full story, but he was an elite para-rescueman with seal team six, and the day after 9/11 he deployed to afghanistan. he escorted hamid karzai and saved his life as he entered kabul after the taliban fell. for people hike that who are still serving, this is personal. and the passion that you heard, the pain, the anger that you heard in the speeches behind me, that is reel. and then that is real. and then there are the survivors. i spoke to family members of people like chad keller who was a young up and coming, amazing engineer who worked on satellites. he died at the age of 29 onboard, you know, he was here at the pentagon when american airlines flight 77 hit. and speaking to his father, he s truly you just can t believe the loss those 1 is 84 lives 184 lives here at the pentagon. so that s what struck me this morning. this has been, this has been a 20-year journey for all of us. i was in the middle east at the
exactly 20 years ago at 10:10 a.m. part of the pentagon collapsed. at 10:53 a.m., donald rumsfeld then defense secretary ordered the military to increase the def-con readiness and prepare for war. neil, that war continues today even though there are no u.s. troops left in afghanistan. few here believe the war is over, neil. neil: jennifer griffin, thank you very, very much. jennifer s been there from the beginning continuing breaking news and conference insights second to none since. we appreciate that. as jennifer said, it s hard to imagine anything like this could happen and look at the coverage of the pentagon itself. take a look. individuals who committed these attacks on the people of the united states in new york and at the pentagon located in the state of virginia, sought a decisive strike, one that was
suicide bombing, the way we chose to end that 20-year conflict which many argue is not over and some argue that we ll be back there in due course. how were you able to put in perspective maybe what we watched over the past month? great difficulty. bill: knowing that we were going to have this day right around the corner. you know, when i heard president biden say he wanted to make september 11th the date by which we withdrew, my instant gut last april was wrong day. this is day of just remembrance. this should not be a symbolic day for any other purpose. make it october 7th, the day the counterattack in afghanistan began, not september 11th. but, bill, all you can do now is hope that the president has has it right. that we are able to just withdraw everything from afghanistan, our intelligence, our forward operations, our support for the afghan military and just hope he s right and that there won t be another attack that s planned in