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Us. apr appreciate it. john, president biden delivering a forceful defense withdrawing not giving an inch to his critics. what is the strategy here? don, think what you saw today was part strikeategy and part personal impulse. he wanted to explain and defend the decision in broad strokes that led us here. that is the war in afghanistan was time to bring it to a close, that it had long since achieved principle objectives and he not only deeply believes that now but for ten years. obama and trump wanted to do the same thing but biden didn t and because biden did it, he s been for the last two weeks in a category 5 political hurricane. the proximate cause of that was the collapse of the afghan government and security forces but the images that that put on our tv screens of the kabul airport led a chorus of critics,
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Forceful defense of the withdrawal from afghanistan. the president presenting the choice as one between leaving and escalating and honoring a commitment. he s honoring a commitment made to the american people to the end, to end the 20-year war. joining me now senior political commentator david axelrod and former chief strategist for former president george w. bush matthew dowd is here as well. gentlemen, good evening to you. i m so happy to have both of you here. david, the president s speech was defiant. it probably was the most forceful we have seen him on afghanistan. he was trying to sell the decision to leave while defending how it was carried out. how do you think americans will see this? well, look, first of all, i d be the first thing i d always say is it s hard to judge anything in the moment, you know, and we tend to do that and say this is what is going to happen and this is how people are going to interpret it in the future. i think time will tell. my guess is that the de
In afghanistan. the taliban in charge with more weaponry than they ve ever had in the past, and a border that is open. he s not even a good actor. and we have and a border that is open. the gop going after a president for carrying out the deal the former guy cut in the first place. after 20 years of war, joe biden or whoever is telling him what to do nowadays made the taliban stronger than ever. so we, you know, this news network, so we like facts here. let s remember it was the previous administration that began the process of negotiating with the taliban. it was the former guy who secretly planned to meet with the taliban at camp david right before the anniversary of 9/11. it was the former guy who signed a peace treaty with the taliban. let me say it again. it was the former guy who signed