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it s one that still resonates and that s the pain of this. so many of us, i was already serving in the reserve when 9/11 happened. i remember the unity and the patriotism that people felt after 9/11, and so many people signed up after 9/11. and we felt like we were serving our country. we were standing against the people who attacked us. we were preventing any terror attack from ever happening again in afghanistan. and through our experience in afghanistan, we got to know finallies. we got to see the damage from war with other competing interests have caused, the illiteracy, the lack of economic development and we wanted to help. we built relationships,
anywhere they can and obviously, many are pouring into iran where i am now which shares this long, porous border with afghanistan. they re desperate to get out of the country. the iranian government here has set up three makeshift camps for afghan refugees along the border. and they re waiting to see just how many people are going to flood into this country. there s already about 2.5 million afghans here. that number will go up dramatically. and many of the finallies that work here, that have been here for many years, are making desperate calls for anybody to borrow some money or make a call to a contact they know to help get their wives, their children, and other family members, afghanistan, willing to leave everything behind just to get their family over here. and it is also triggered some pretty extraordinary scenes. we saw yesterday, this amazing
disingeneral with us to say these generals have been lying to us all complaining the afghans should have done better. and the ground troops knew better. we all knew that the success of the finallies was entirely dependent on them having their back and their capabilities were only going to be as good as the faith of their government that they were asked to defend. just like when isis stormed through. no faith in kabul. and that was especially overtly no reason to have any faith in the united states or the rest of the community once biden pulled a plug. briefly before we have to pass. matt, can i get your assessment in terms of what happens next is we trained up this military. the mission was to build up. it was to retake country in total. what does this mean going forward? have we been put in grave danger
i remember meeting one special operations soldier who said that they realized when they were talking on counter parts one evening under the stars that the afghans they were speaking to didn t have a concept of the solar system. so the gap from zero to whatever the goals were, including a functioning air force government, governance, was monumental. but things have changed. things were better for a whole lot of finallies. this is not just a bad news story until today. that gets to the second part of the question about how long american troops should be expected to give up their lives for an unwinnable war. understanding, of course, baked into the question, is that the war is unwinnable. considering what kevin told us, i wonder if you think this could have gone any other way. as long as the military stayed there, we protected the status quo. i would argue that what is transpiring is far worse. let me ask your viewers this.