be a well-armed army, a well-armed military. what they don t have is the training most of the time, when you take a sophisticated or professional army, they are trained in large-scale maneuver, large-scale combat operations. they re trained also in the integration of not just air but group and so forth you re not seeing any of that. other indicators that show that they re unprepared and untrained, they re firing indiscriminately at places you mentioned frost bite you mentioned lack of logistics and so forth but all these things are fundamental to being a professionalized military force. oh, by the way, you mentioned a non-commissioned core. we empower in the united states army our non-commissioned officer core to lead young troops into battle
and you have to wonder if this phone call from to ghani from the president when they talked to each other prior to his. steve: prior to leaving afghanistan. brian: the president of the united states says he does not see it s inevitable that taliban take over the country. there will not be another saigon moment. it would be worse. they think the 300,000 well-armed army would be able to stand up to 75,000 taliban. but, even president biden had to know when he was saying this this wasn t indeed true. now this transcript has emerged. here is a little of the dialogue. i need to tell you this is biden to ghani. i need to tell you the perception around the world that parts of afghanistan, i believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban. and there is a need, whether it s true or not, there is a need to project a different
u.s. role seems to outsource to kofi annan. might be the single most ineffective diplomat in past 20 years. the man who appeased saddam hussein, who oversaw the united nations during oil for food and who says that he can stop the slaughter. he has been saying it for weeks. sending in the blue helmeted soldiers who have done nothing. terrible, terrible situation. i think you can oversimplify we can swoop in there and do something about it. a well, well-armed army. not libya. the rebels are few in number. many 15,000. i think it s a sad situation. people are trying to figure out the best way to approach it. republics 10% of the population. they are not in a strong position. the longer it goes on the more he has a chance of collapsing and falling. we have outsourced our policy here. not to the u.n. but to russia. secretary of state says we are not going to act on the security council so russia has a veto over what the united states does. it s not a place america wants