it is not just humiliating. it will have a pro found impact on america standing in the world on the future of jihadism which the u.s. had thought it had won by eliminating the leaders of al qaeda and isis, helping defeat the islamic state. and the danger is, down the road, what nation will want to aline it southwesterly the united states, commit troops and resources, whether it is for the kind of massive alliance, 132 nations that fought in afghanistan, or the coalition of the willing that invaded iraq. the repercussions of this are not just playing out in the tragic scenes at kabul airport. it really i think could be, koenld up being had a historians look at as the book end on the american era of power. can i ask you something? even after devoting 20 years, do
aggression in the region to russia against the crimea for years. the simple matter is that after the international community spent an enormous amount of blood and treasure to prevent the establishment of an slack state in syria because it knew this would produce everything from a refugee flow to a graft sink for every in the plan met allowed afghanistan. produce refugee flow and allow a place for every militant who wishes to come to learn the trade of terrorism, a place to travel. and the world has also just shown that it will allow this to happen, unlike syria, where we marshalled an international coalition, the coalition has just collapsed in afghanistan. and i don t think there is much chance of the coalition of the willing being reformed in the future after the u.s. decision. bret: tom, the president s words you can t be some place forever with u.s. forces does this mean we are going to change our posture in south korea?
the continuedt reliable alliances in jeopardy according to the former u.s. ambassador to denmark. this is just not the way you treat an ally. reporter: denmark has been a robust contributor to u.s.-led missions despite the relatively small armed forces including joining the coalition of the willing during the 2003 iraq invasion. and sending 750 troops to afghanistan during the height of nato-led military missions. in fact, the afghan war ended up being the deadliest military campaign in modern danish history. losing more service members per capita than the u.s. they went and died alongside our troops. reporter: and erica, the danish prime minister spoke this evening hours after the statement responding to the u.s. president saying her comments were, quote, nasty. in an interview with a national broadcaster she said i do not feel the need to enter into a
now. the ambassador is right, it s in the hands of the diplomatic side and pompeo to try to come up with a better, more secure and public, you know, lean to teheran that does get a lot more support. last thing, watch nato. the nato defense ministers are meeting. it s a trregular meeting but th first one for the acting defense secretary, esper. he has to go there on wednesday and thursday, defend these policies and win the coalition. let s talk a little bit about people we normally depend on, which included nato, an organization that the president has often been critical of, and certainly some of the individual members nations, where are we with diplomacy, and where are we with having a coalition that can be built, and avoid something catastrophic. the use of the word coalition harkens back to the coalition of the willing that john bolton tried to create during the iraq war. that s part of why the yooits
neglecting this hemisphere. that is not the case. regime he removed a drug-dealing strongman, manuel noriega, turning it into the narco state. and the biggest u.s. military operation since the vietnam war, president bush put together an international coalition that liberated kuwait after it had been invaded by saddam hussein s iraq. the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. reporter: after just over five weeks of aerial bombardment, coalition ground forces pushed the iraqi army out of kuwait in just three days. we stood our ground because the world would not look the other way. ambassador al saab atonight kuwait is al saba, tonight kuwait is free. reporter: the cover of time magazine of two george bushs sums up his presidency. the uplifting world leader on the international stage and the one in washington, d.c., weighed