collapsed, there was no morris soviet union to oppose. the obvious question is what is nato for? and within ten years of communism collapsing, we had 9/11, and the rise of islamist terrorism and so nato became basically a counterterrorism outfit, and that was its mantra. so that s why biden can say the reason that we are able to pull out of afghanistan that we wanted to pull out of afghanistan was that we felt they resolve the terrorism problem in afghanistan. they killed bin laden, they got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so that has got nothing to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. by now we seem to be in his peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely
this small force. we gave up long ago what ideas we might have had about nation building, about broad counter insurgency, term insurance, we buy it year to year, force of under 5,000 people the last several years that allows us to have some confidence that we can deal with the terrorism problem that we know is very real in afghanistan. that s what i think biden can be faulted for. he traded the term insurance policy for what at least in the last week has been chaos. we ll see if things stabilize now with the taliban taking over, holding press conferences, but i think that s the weakness in his argument. look, we talked a lot about domestic political hit the president is taking, likely to continue to take. i would like to talk about the global political hit america has
austin a former general sit there and just finger-pointing and blame the afghans as though this is just the afghan problem it is a terrorism problem it is a global problem in the intelligence community has been very clear it will follow us back home it will spread like a cancer what happens in afghanistan does not stay in afghanistan and this will hit us at home again but yet we have a lot of excuses and finger-pointing. steve: to the intelligence point you have jackie s spear california congresswoman very clearly saying this is a massive failure it did not tell us that this could happen your colleague says absolutely the intelligence said this would happen i think that s
austin a former general sit there and just finger-pointing and blame the afghans as though this is just the afghan problem it is a terrorism problem it is a global problem in the intelligence community has been very clear it will follow us back home it will spread like a cancer what happens in afghanistan does not stay in afghanistan and this will hit us at home again but yet we have a lot of excuses and finger-pointing. steve: to the intelligence point you have jackie s spear california congresswoman very clearly saying this is a massive failure it did not tell us that this could happen your colleague says absolutely the intelligence said this would happen i think that s
austin a former general sit there and just finger-pointing and blame the afghans as though this is just the afghan problem it is a terrorism problem it is a global problem in the intelligence community has been very clear it will follow us back home it will spread like a cancer what happens in afghanistan does not stay in afghanistan and this will hit us at home again but yet we have a lot of excuses and finger-pointing. steve: to the intelligence point you have jackie s spear california congresswoman very clearly saying this is a massive failure it did not tell us that this could happen your colleague says absolutely the intelligence said this would happen i think that s