We do not have an exact number, but it is in the thousands.
Over the last 20 years at different times, Congress has been misled.
I am responsible for the decisions I make.
Anyone who tried to stop him from saying what he wanted to say, speaking his mind, would probably not be long for their job.
I certainly received this cable in mid-July. I read it. I responded to it. I factored its contents into my thinking.
We wanted to complete the mission in Afghanistan when we had a chance.
the nature of the relationship that the Taliban would have with us or most other countries around the world will depend entirely on its cond...
Yes, except that those conditions were so loose, particularly with regard to commitments it made.
But as an institution, after 20 years of investment by the United States, by the international community, hundreds of billions of dollars, e...
The reality is that the government and Afghan national security forces collapsed.
We want to make sure that that does not happen, because if people lose faith and confidence in it...
I believe that there is nothing that our strategic competitors like China or Russia would have liked more than for President Biden to have r...
That required some coordination with them to get people through and to the airport.
We will stand by our commitments. We will stand by our commitments to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.
Absolutely. We stand by our commitments to both countries.
We strongly support that. Those need to be updated to reflect present realities, not reality as it was in 2001 or 2002.
Absolutely not.
We are now in a much better position to confront the challenges and threats that we actually face in 2021.
