al-qaeda and afghanistan and prevent their return to either country in the future. that s a cause that could not be more just. a just cause complete with a new strategy and a new commander. general stanley mccrystal. he didn t talk in that mission statement much about if afghanistan is unstable and ungovernmentable and all. al-qaeda is not good enough of that success. so it became an implied requirement that says you got to create a sovereign afghanistan which could defend its own border and prevent the reemergence of al-qaeda safe haven inside. we have a new strategy, a new
what makes the problem of assessing our failure in afghanistan difficult is everyone can think they re doing their best. we are all left with great writeups and a pat on the back. we convinced ourselves we were doing well but never held anybody accountable for wait a minute, if everyone gets an a but the overall effort is still an f, who do we hold accountable? it means it s super easy for political leaders to say well, the military has this. congress has shown decade after decade they have no desire to own any kind of oversight of the way we re fighting. but there comes a point when the line between self-delusion and a lie is irrelevant if you re still pursuing something that doesn t make sense and you re inappropriately using the blood of the american people. we have to have these discussions, right? the lives of the american soldiers, even if it s just a
what we were doing in afghanistan fundamentally was we were building a military for a nation that did not exist. they say the clie hinese milita has been funded by a billionaire to rebuild louisville, kentucky with all the best intentions in the world. let me take over your police force and reshape your city in a better image, do you think the citizens of louisville, kentucky will be one maybe i don t believe them and two, how can i rob these dipshits of all their money? you saw a ton of that with what we were doing. the reality is all these folks were working on networks whether
that was ten years ago. think about that. we re going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. i learned the hard way there was never a good time to withdrawal u.s. forces. the taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. tal taliban fighters have broken through the front line. the afghan army collapsed and the central government has fallen. panic fills the air in kabul. president biden said this is not going to be a saigon. guess what? there has been an explosion outside kabul airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. i stand scquarely behind my decision, it s time to end america s longest war. is it a mistake? i think it is, yeah. i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. i must see it s defeat for
person and i do in many ways. when i looked at his presidency and the choices he made i think obama was a liar. i think he misled people to believe in hope and change agenda specifically in afghanistan. the master mind of 9/11, osama bin laden is dead. they captured him, i remember the day it happened, nobody was reacting to the fact that osama bin laden got killed because we knew that s not why we were there anymore. it s kind of like when i started to fallout of love with obama. the death of osama bin laden s marks the most