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Americans rushing to have airports to get out. but i m not sure why we can make this comparison other than them saying for years and years, anytime a world looks like it s not going gray, it must be another vietnam saga. for me, i understand why it comes off, but it s incredibly frustrating. i expected. it doesn t, matter it s not the same thing. there s a lot more to talking about moving forward. we have a few more questions would like to get to from her audience. but first, chris, i want to get your sense of this comparison. i think that underneath it is this implication that we ran away with her tail between our legs. we screw this, up they caught us flat-footed, we should ve seen him coming. and because we messed up this whole thing, we ve had to kind of leave the house was on fire. so, we are just blundering our way out of afghanistan in a situation that was untenable, and unwinnable. do you think that that s a fair historical comparison? no. because, the u.s. evacuated more t ....
Them. i remember meeting one special operations soldier who said, he realized that when he was talking to counterparts when evening, that the afghans they were speaking to, did not have a concept of the solar system. so the gap from zero to whatever the goals were, including functioning air force, governance, was monumental. but things have changed. things were better for a whole lot of afghans, and this is not just a bad news story until today. matt that kind of gets to the second part of the question, how long should american troops be expected to give up their lives for an unwinnable war. understanding of course that breaks into the question that the assumption that the wars unwinnable. but considering what kevin told us, i wonder if you think this could have gone any other way? as long as the american military stay, there we essentially protected the status quo. i would argue that is would now transpiring is far worse. let me ask the viewers this. ....