I actually agree with the spirit and the content of this amendment.
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.
This has been happening for 20 years. We have been fighting this war for 20 years, day in, day out.
We need to protect our troops. We need to expand the perimeter that’s necessary to protect them.
I have been, as you know, Rachel, since April sounding the alarm, banging the drum saying let’s start the evacuation.
It's not enough time to get those Afghan allies who helped the U.S. out in time.
I think we say what we're going to do.
We have an obligation, a moral one. We have a national security obligation.
I fought them during both my combat tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger. They obviously are extremely brutal, immoral...
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...