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Thank you so much for being with us tonight. glad to be with you, rachel. let me ask your top line reaction about what you heard from president trump about afghanistan. my top line reaction is that this, once again, is reaffirmation and confirmation of the fact that we are in the state of perpetual war. and this was a speech that really laid out a military-first option. he did not lay out a comprehensive strategy and in fact, i m really very disappointed because he of course campaigned by saying that he would end this war and bring our young men and women home which is what we should do. there s no military solution in afghanistan and in fact, we need to really begin to look at the costs and consequences. rachel, i have to say our brave troops have gone way beyond the call of duty and it s time to ....
When its mad? and did anybody in the u.s. government make preparations for that before the president said what he just said to them tonight? that s my second question. third question. the president for years insisted that we have to get out of afghanistan immediately. the afghan war has to end right now yesterday just do it just get out. well tonight in his big afghanistan war speech he said he don t want to do that anymore instead he thinks we should learn the lessons what he called the hayesy hayesty and mistaken decision to leave if irk too soon zboo as we no 2011 merge hayestily and mistakenly withdrew from iraq. in 2011 as we know america hayestily and mistakenly withdrew from iraq. here is what he said in 2010 about the hayesty mistaken decision to leave iraq too soon. ....
Can wait us out. that would send the wrong message for the enemy who would know all they have to do is wait us out. if the thing you missed about the george w. bush administration was its approach to war, congratulations that part is back. joining us now jake jacobs msnbc military analyst also the recipient of the medal of honor great to have you with us tonight thanks for being here. good evening. limit ask you about the first question i raised moments ago about the speech tonight. what do you think the president means when he says we re going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of the war to uses do you think what he is talking about the. the first conclusion i was being if a i ll be facetious but the first conclusion came to my mind we re now going to horvatin poppies and sell them that s how we ll fund it which is exactly what the taliban is ....
president obama has has been the one in the process of kpri indicating from the warsed is. he could have gotten out a long time ago these wars are a disaster. he could have gotten out a long time ago. he said at the time. tonight we have to learn from gnat hayesty and mistaken decision to get out of iraq too soon sfoo he essentially made the argument we need to plan to stay in afghanistan indefinitely. this was an odd speech tonight for a few reasons. not the least just the detail that nobody knows why he made it now. what precipitation tated this also nobody knows what he announced in terms of what s going to change. we don t know what s different now. we also don t know why he has completely abandoned all the previous arguments for the exact opposite of the current policy more do we know how to now he ....
And he has another marine son either deploying or about to be deployed. that human connection for some of the key decision makers here is absolutely key. andrea mitchell, pleasure and honor to have you hear with us tonight. joining us now in studio is a veteran of the war in afghanistan. he was an adviser to stanley mcchrystal. it s great to have you here. let me ask your top line reaction to the speech tonight. you hit it. it s not a big policy change. the big shift is where the president has been. now he is the president and has to confront a series of really bad options in afghanistan. i think the biggest take away is that he is now taken ownership of this war to a certain degree, mattis insisted on that. that was not going to be something he delegated to the generals and could blame on the generals and now he has ownership of it. ....