0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. instead we went into iraq which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops when there was
0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country, but instead we went into iraq which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities, and we never fin finished afghanistan. a mistake by the bush administration. it doesn t negate the information that was made available to you about the strength of the afghan security forces and the ghani administration s will to stick with it in afghanistan
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there
through you guys. i think it is one of the most important things for us to do and that is what we re trying to do, to get that message out. i know our social media, we re posting on there and i m in the baton rouge area at the moment and we have intermittent capabilities on wi-fi and even through our email system and things like that. so we re working as best we can. there is multiple different cell providers that are down right now. so even when on a troop level to communicate with them, it is through specific cell sites and cell providers. understood. well, we appreciate the work you re doing. folks, please listen to the lieutenant and stay put and don t take matter news your own hands. it is dangerous out there into this morning officials in st. tammany parish are warning people not to get out and similar message saying if you are planning on sightseeing, don t. you would be amazed. some people do it. they want to take pictures.
i don t think any service anywhere in the world, whatever you do, is in vain. jon: there s been the suggestion that the united states has lost the trust of maybe some of its allies around the world in the hasty way this evacuation was conducted. you say there was another point, loss of trust in the u.s. government and military leadership by our armed forces personnel. i think there absolutely is. i mean, look at the efforts that are going on by former special operations personnel. they re organizing over the phone, in person, different chains to get people out. our government has the capability to do that. i know the troops that have this capability and are chomping at the bit to do that, but the government is not allowing them to. they haven t made the mission to go rescue everybody, get everybody out. i think there s a huge loss of trust in the government, by veterans, at the troop level, that s amazing. it is going to hurt us for years. jon: wait a minute. you say the governme