That was ten years ago. Think about that. Were going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. I learned the hard way there was never a good time to withdrawal u. S. Forces. The taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. Tal taliban fighters have broken through the front line. The Afghan Army collapsed and the central government has fallen. Panic fills the air in kabul. President biden said this is not going to be a saigon. Guess what . There has been an Explosion Outside kabul Airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. I stand scquarely behind my decision, its time to end americas longest war. Is it a mistake . I think it is, yeah. I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. I must see its defeat for the United States. I think the president is right. Enough is enough. What was all of this for . That has to be the question veterans are asking. Two decades, more than 2 trillion, more than 6,000 american Lives, more than 100,000 afgha
The level of local knowledge that i don t have about my own hometown. not about his own hometown, led alone about afghan villages nestled in the hindo kush. somebody would come out with an a-k 47 and killed. almost every compound in afghanistan had an ak-47. if someone came in your living room and you had an ak-47, you may go and defend your family. we killed a lot of people who were defending heart and home. we created a tremendous amount of ill-will and fear in the af afghan people. most of the time we got the
Afghanistan, thompson, kurk, griffin, park, delegas, martin and mace. every one of them killed doing something helping, on the occasions when i am asked, did they die for nothing? i would say no. because beyond the achievements for the afghan people, the sacrifices the service members made are not contingent on victory. their selflessness exists onto itself. no service members enlist thinking the pentagon or the presidents never make mistakes. that s what makes their willingness to sacrifice all the more remarkable. now, whether our leaders and the decisions that they made are worthy of these men and women,
Country. they have been at war in some form for the last 45 years. there are good people. i want them to have a better future. i m also invested in the thousands of americans that have everyth served over there and have done i think an extraordinary job. i m very, very worried about what i see. i think we didn t really know what winning was going to be from the start. eight years into the war, general stanley mccrystal took the reigns in afghanistan. his success hunting terrorists in iraq and transforming the top secret ops force led newly-elected president obama to believe that mccrystal would be the general to deliver his campaign promise of righting the ship in afghanistan. u.s. president joe biden will announce with drawl of u.s. troops from afghanistan. president biden says the last
Impossible. the fact that ten years into the conflict that we were finally finding bin laden which is a big pakistan military city should tell us something about how good a friend pakistan was. i think it really comes down to the united states never really fundamentally understood afghanistan and what made it tick and it didn t understand the motivations of the taliban and where they were gaining support from. support that was not only coming from pakistan. many afghans who may have not liked the taliban s harsh brand of justice saw them nevertheless as the lesser evil compared to the corrupt afghan government and its burgening military. there was a continuing problem with corruption in the army and that was discouragdisc i ll give you an example.