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for americans and other individuals that want to be able to leave afghanistan after our withdrawal is complete that the state department is going to continue to work across many different levers to facilitate that transportation. i say, as i said earlier, right now, we do not anticipate a military role in that effort. the panel is here. john, doing a little leg work. michael beschloss joins us, we are waiting comments from the secretary of state. for viewers wondering, the foggy bottom seems to be running behind schedule, although it is a busy day. we re going to bring you secretary of state blinken s comments when he comes out to the lectern you see. i will go to john and then michael. john, we talked about policy and big picture history. walk us through from military ....
john? there s so much to those comments. i think what s most important is joe biden relates to the father who sent his son to the war and the buck stops with him. what we ve seen, and listen, we opposed the surge into afghanistan. we have seen four administrations punt the football on this war and it takes a leader to end it, and it has been extraordinary to see the foreign policy class of people, and frankly retired military generals that don t want to own their failures and misleading of the american public. how many times have you heard the afghan army turned the corner, how many times that we have the security situation under control. it was one giant ponzi scheme going on for 15 or 16 or 17 years. john is so right. we like to say we want to speak truth to power but what if those in power know the truth? i recommend people go and find the afghan papers which was based on the special inspector s ....
I come back again. what we could do is cut 350 billion easily from the defense budget, still have larger defense budget than russia, iran, china, north korea combined, and use it for the afghan women, use it for women at home for care giving, for pandemics, for covid which by the way is a war that is going to engage this new generation. it is the pandemic generation and the numbers on it are increasing. i think joe biden politically needs to pay more attention to covid at this moment as he moves forward. i just hope this is a turning point where we have more restraint, belief in diplomacy and dialogue and less in military force as solution to our problems. yeah. all important points. john, i wanted to bring you in on the military side of this as well. at the pentagon, the press secretary was discussing bha the remaining evacuations were like. take a look. ....
More effective than in dispensable nation work. yeah. lot of important points here. i think what we are going to do, i will let john get a final word. we are awaiting the press conference but they re clearly running over. i think we re going to do a quick hurricane update, another important story in america. may come back to some guests. john, go ahead, final word. katrina talked about next steps. we have been debating authorization and use of military force in these wars several years now. the 2001 authorization has been used to fight organizations that did not exist on 9/11. the real next step is for congress to do the constitutional duties and reign in war making powers that would prevent a war wandering 20 years ever again. that would be something to make a difference going forward. understood. ....
Report. those in power who are now trying to blame joe biden for the way he is ending a war which is always harder than entering a war need to be held to account. and too often those that got it wrong are given the air time to talk to the american people and blame president biden. in any case, i think let s hope we have a foreign policy of restraint and diplomacy and less of military interventionism and try um falism. i love my country but i don t think it is the indispensable nation. it needs to work with many countries to do things that would improve this world. john, go ahead. yeah, no. listen, proem, i mean, there was a war inside the white house in 2009 between the biden folks that wanted a direct anti-terror policy and frankly folks with ....