The last time we allowed afghanistan to be an empty space, it was filled with the taliban and al qaeda and the planning for 9 11 was done in afghanistan. We know if we pull out of the government collapses, youre going to have some combination of isis, al qaeda, and the taliban running the country again. Thats a longterm very real threat to the United States and europe and all of our allies. Eboni we see speaker gingrich lang out the consequences of pulling out of afghanistan. What does winning even look like at this point . Kat absolutely, what could be realistically considered a win . I like 2012 trump saying weve got to get out of there. Now he is surrounded by general generals. I unfortunately expect it will be a message of announcing we are going to be getting more involved. Lisa in june, secretary mattis told the Senate Armed Services committee we were not winning in afghanistan. Im interested in hearing from President Trump tonight about how that trajectory would change under thi
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