I think, as you said, as a policy matter, Democrats believe in good government. We believe in ethics and government. And...
This has been happening for 20 years. We have been fighting this war for 20 years, day in, day out.
I think we can do this in a couple of weeks but we certainly have to be diligent about it and it’s not without risk.
I have been, as you know, Rachel, since April sounding the alarm, banging the drum saying let’s start the evacuation.
We need to protect our troops. We need to expand the perimeter that’s necessary to protect them.
It's not enough time to get those Afghan allies who helped the U.S. out in time.
I guess the Taliban are the only people who are building back better.
I fought them during both my combat tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger. They obviously are extremely brutal, immoral...
We have an obligation, a moral one. We have a national security obligation.
We will debate the politics and policy of this for years to come.
What we need to do is be singularly focused on the mission of getting folks out, we have the ability to do it.
We have to make the commitment to do that. And I don't think we set a calendar deadline.
That's why these arbitrary deadlines of August 31st, I don't believe in that. I think we should say we will do this unti...
I think we say what we're going to do.
We now have an obligation to conduct a broad and expeditious evacuation to get many of those folks out into safety, beca...
I have always disagreed with the so-called deal with the Taliban, because you can’t deal with the Taliban. You just can’...
I did agree with the Biden administration’s and President Biden’s decision to leave, because, after 20 years, and hundre...
the reality, as I said, is that climate change is here today and anyone who lives in the Rocky Mountain West here in my ...
