Bring them to justice and make they were that you could not do that again. We succeeded in achieves those fundamental objectives. The idea we would remain there in the midst of a Civil War was simply not in the national interests. Thats the hard decision the president made. This as taliban officials say they will soon enter the palace to declare the country the islamic emirate of taliban. There is no they also bear significant responsibility to this. President trump told us that the president was going to fight Terror None of that has happened. None of it has happened. Ali, the u. S. Embassy issued a statement a short time ago, saying the Security Situation in kabul is changing very quickly. That includes at the airport. The americans there had hoped to get about 72 hours to ferry all of The Americans and their personnel out of afghanistan. If those reports are verified that now gunfire is being opened up on the airport. That means the situation is rapidly deteriorated. And its a bad s
Say this is really rich. you know, secretary pompeo criticizinged biden administration, when, frankly speaking, dealing with afghanistan always was going to be difficult for president biden once he assumed office, but the trump administration made it even more difficult by unilaterally negotiating with the taliban and excluding of afghan government, which of course already had its problems in terms of credibility with the afghan population, but in afternoon, might makes right, and the united states brings a lot of might to the table, so excludes the afghan government, weakened the negotiating position. so the trump administration officials criticizing this, i think they should be quiet, because they did not do a great job. now, having said that, you know, this was really, unfortunately,
Massively bunkled in terms of how we got out of afghanistan. there was and there is wide agreement in the united states that we should leave afghanistan militarily, but we never were intending to leave diplomatically, we certainly did not intend to leave the way we are now, hastily, having to burn documents, fighting for the lives of americans and the afghans who helped them, not to mention all the internationals and other afghans that helped basically civil society, media outlets like yours. we re in a situation we didn t need to be in. the biden administration had already decided, may 1st, the deadline the trump administration agreed with afghanistan, wasn t going to cut it. they picked august 31st. they should have gone into the time of year when the taliban isn t fighting, during the winter. they also would have had more
Bash the biden administration for pulling out of afghanistan, and the fashion with which they did it, in some cases likening this moment to leaving saigon during the vietnam war. alsoed biden administration plays defense, some obama officials even second-guessing the way this has gone down. oregon congress members acknowledging the realities on the ground, even as she backs up the biden administration to pull out and end america s longest war. listen. this is a crisis of untold proportions. i would agree with richard, this is an intelligence failure. we underestimated the taliban, and overestimated the resolve of the afghan army. whether or not we should have a second briefing today, i would certainly welcome one, this is a fast-changing set of circumstances, but we ve got to focus now on saving lives.
General mccaffery. just this morning, take a lynn to this first. president biden said in the not be a saigon, but when i team to ambassador crocker, we think it will be worse. sage saigon all over again? it s not clear to me they do