Evidence that staying longer would have made the f can security forces, or the african government any more resilient or self sustaining. If 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars and Support Equipment Training did not suffice. Why would another year . Another 5, another 10. Conversely, there is nothing strategic competitors like china and russia, or adversaries like ran and or 3 and would have like more and for the United States to re up a 20 Year War and remain bog down in afghanistan for another decade. In advance of the president s decision, i was in constant contact with our allies and partners to hear their views and fax them into our thinking. When the president announced the Withdrawal Nato immediately and unanimously embraced it, we all set to work together on the drawdown. Similar, we were intensely focused on the safety of americans and can stand in march. We began urging them to leave the country. In total between march and august, we sent 19 specific messages without war
New urgency. 24 hours after two Suicide Bombings targeted thousands of afghans trying to flee the country and worst attack on u. S. Service members in a decade. President Biden Vowing to retaliate. To those who carried out this attack as well as anyone that wishes america harm, know this. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. You can see it at the White House, the american flag at Half Staff to honor 13 u. S. Service members killed thursday, and 18 others were injured in the attacks. President biden addressing the families of those lost. My Heart Aches for you. Lives lost were given in the service of liberty, the service of security, the service of others. And the service of america. In addition, at least 113 afghan civilians were killed and 180 injured in the attacks. According to an unnamed health ministry source. Isisk is claiming responsibility for the attack that involved a Suicide Bomber that detonated their belt at an airport gate. A se
Gupta. Good morning to you. That there is going to be a lot of people, myself included, fully vaccinated and questioning why do we need a third booster shot. You could explain it to everyone . Well i think youre asking a very fair question. Especially given that just a couple of weeks ago the message seemed to be youre not going to need Booster Shots this will probably just be for people with weakened Immune Systems that couldnt generate the proper immune response initially. It is a very fair question. And i will preface this by saying the mass majority of severe disease is still occurring among half of the country that is not vaccinated. So people that are vaccinated, they have really good protection. Let me show you what is driving this data that were seeing here. This was basically looking at Vaccine Effectiveness against any kind of infection. Breakthrough infections and just getting surveillance screening, they did see waning of the vic effectiveness overall. But that is not refle
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