Aug. 19, 2021 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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| We pushed al-Qaeda out of its camps, helped the Afghan people topple the Taliban, and helped them establish a democratic government. | |
| So there's no U.S. actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else? | |
| I don't have the answer to that question. | |
| You don't have the answer? | |
| This is something that it will affect our relationships for years to come and decades to come. | |
| I will say, when China watches this, they're so happy and they're laughing at us. | |
| They're laughing. | |
| They're so happy and they're laughing at us. | |
| They're laughing. | |
| They're so happy and they're laughing at us. | |
| They're laughing. | |
| *music* | |
| *music* | |
| Bye. | |
| Bye. | |
| He's right. | |
| We've had troops there for 20 years. | |
| They fought. | |
| They sacrificed. | |
| Their families sacrificed so that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in America planned in a foreign country. | |
| Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? | |
| We've got our own on Capitol Hill. | |
| Now, should the Biden administration have had a stronger U.S. military presence for the transition? | |
| Well, first may I just say that I commend the president for the action that he took. | |
| It was strong, it was decisive, and it was the right thing to do. | |
| They're so happy and they're laughing at us. | |
| They're laughing. | |
| Hey Chuck, do you got it? | |
| You got the bar, Chuck? | |
| You got the ball? | |
| You got the track? | |
| You got the music? | |
| We got it all! | |
| We are the Browns! | |
| They're so happy and they're laughing at us. | |
| They're laughing. | |
| When you look at what's happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution, or judgment? | |
| Look, I don't think it was a failure. | |
| Look, it was a simple choice, George. | |
| When the Taliban... | |
| Let me put it another way. | |
| When you had the government of Afghanistan... | |
| The leader of that government getting into a plane and taking off and going to another country. | |
| When you saw the significant collapse of the Afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that's what happened. | |
| That's simply what happened. | |
| But we've all seen the pictures. | |
| We've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17. | |
| We've seen Afghans falling. | |
| That was four days ago, five days ago. | |
| What did you think when you first saw those pictures? | |
| What I thought was we have to gain control of this. | |
| We have to move this more quickly. | |
| We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. | |
| And we did. | |
| So you don't think this could have been handled? | |
| This actually could have been handled better in any way? | |
| No mistakes? | |
| No, I don't think it could have been handled in a way that... | |
| We're going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens. | |
| I don't know how that happened. | |
| So for you, that was always priced into the decision? | |
| Yes. | |
| And let me tell you, we haven't stopped. | |
| This is not ending. | |
| Again, we have all of those thousands of Americans over there and others. | |
| And you're saying, how are they going to get? | |
| They have a Taliban ring around the airport. | |
| They said nobody else. | |
| Now, they're saying we'll negotiate. | |
| But I really do really think I mean, their history is that they're very brutal and they don't like to negotiate. | |
| That's their history. | |
| And Biden put us in this position. |
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