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and president trump did not hesitate to take that strike again, i bet that got a lot of attention in moscow and beijing to say nothing of tehran, that is how you project strength, you are willing to engage in limitd military actions and conflicts as ronald reagan did as well with a view of avoiding larger military connected. mark: with all talk of trump, and undermine nato, nato got stronger under trump. the united states military was build up. and you say, putin says in his box. communist china of the nervous about what was taking place in iran. iran was crumbling, now in 12 short months it has been reversed. and i don t know if we re at precipice of war or not bbut one damn ugly situation, senator cotton thank you so much for being such an important voice out there, thank you, sir. thank you, mark.
power vacuum left behind, how is central command postured to prevent terrorist organizations from gaining strength in the region? senator, probably details would be best left to the classified session later this afternoon. i will tell you that i have today headquarters that has ability to look into afghanistan, albeit limitd and with ability to fuse intelligence to look at isis-k and al qaeda, we are refining that, best practices on that, we have a way forward. i ve told the committee before, it is very hard to do this, it is not impossible to do this. looking forward to seeing those details in the closed hearing. are you confident, confident that we can defy organizations like al qaeda and isis ability to use afghanistan as launch pad for terrorist activity? i think that is yet to be seen. i think we re still seeing how
0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue, you made, it was your plan, you acknowledged it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. when in the history of this country have we had the military say, have a plan we will take military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, american citizens? american citizens, yeah. american citizens would come out once noncombatant evacuation is declared. u
government can t do it the away team that s the united states can t substitute for them and you can t get around that fact. colonel reese if you had been in the meeting in the white house situation room with the president and he asked you, give me some advice colonel reese, you re the head of the delta force, give me advice what is the united states need to do now to defeat isis in iraq? you would say? i would say that we have to be able to put a limitd amount of special forces teams integrated with the iraqi forces that we train, get them into the field and allow them to continue to coach, teach, and mentor those forces to be a combat enabler in the battlefield. and if he said to you then colonel, how many americans will come home in body bags? you would say? i couldn t tell him that. but i would tell him that there s a high possibility it s going to happen but if you want to stop isis here to stop them and their spread trends nationally across the middle