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Reality now. and the thing is they ve had plenty of time to prepare for this. it didn t come along precipitously. we ve been talking for leaving for years now and turning over more and more responsibility to the afghan armies and years to patrol the cities and they did not fight when push came to shove they laid down their arms and ran. bill: the simple question are you okay with the decisions that president biden has made then? i think biden did a terrible job in the withdrawal. no. it wasn t executed very well at all. we did need to leave. there has been a consensus for a decade or more to leave. the problem isn t in leaving. the problem is we stayed too long. the longer we stayed, the more the expectations were. but the more complacent the afghans grew as we fought their battle. year after year we dpot their battles and they had to step up. when time came instead of james madison or monroe rallying the ....
Insure that the safety of not only around the gates but the other checkpoints so that we can continue to process vulnerable afghans, other coalition folks and american citizens in. when this evacuation began there were already close to 1,000 u.s. troops at that airport. so just to be clear, when we re talking about pulling u.s. troops out, we re talking about pulling all the troops, so you go to zero at the embassy, is that correct? i followed the question. that s correct. you have to take out more than you put in. yes. so how does that happen without the active cooperation of the taliban to keep the ....
And women in uniform and the military equipment. bagram would have been a place to do it. he abandoned all of it. a lot of questions need to be asked and answered with candor from president biden and we have yet to see that. i would encourage the afghan people. if you give people a taste of freedom, which we ve done, they won t give up that freedom. for many afghans today they only know freedom. for over 20 years. so to think that the taliban will be able to come in and go back to the barbaric days of the past, i think they will recognize there will be a rise and ultimately resistance to their form of government and tyranny. what exactly on numbers [inaudible] ....
How many of the special visa holders, afghans who acted as interpreters and aides to americans who are at risk of being slaughtered by the taliban, we don t know how many of those are out there who haven t been able to make their way to the airport. it is hard to believe we will be able to get even a substantial number of them out. this is a debacle. let s not kid ourselves. it is a debacle of our own making. you mentioned earlier bagram. think about it. the one thing keeping the taliban from moving throughout afghanistan and taking over provincial capitals and steam rolling their way back into power was american air assets at bagram who could rain down hell from above and they knew it. what was one of the first things the biden administration did? withdraw our air assets at bagram. it s astonishing. who planned this and who was in charge of this? what kind of questions did the president ask? when we final of this there has to be a top to bottom review. ....
Despite the progress we ve seen over the past 48 hours major concerns about americans and afghans stranded in afghanistan. we continue to get messages and phone calls from people asking desperately for any sort of when he to get people out of the country. bill: back to you shortly in doha. dana: desperation growing among those trying to flee. a week from today the august 31 date. people are pleading with president biden to save her and her family. we re stranded at home. we can t get to the airport. when we try to get to the airport you get beaten up. we re afraid for our lives. we get more news to stay put than to be told that you are going to be evacuated. this is not comforting at all because we don t know if we are going to make it out. my daughter thinks that the taliban will behead me. ....