Chris Murphy actually said...

"Were 2,500 or 5,000 troops enough to stop the Afghan people from rushing to the airport?"

"I think what links our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan is that they are both fundamentally failures of hubris."

"So it was not a decision between leaving and the status quo? This was a decision between a significant commitment of new U.S. resources to the fight or the continuation of a withdrawal plan?"

"Could it be expected that a few thousand U.S. troops and diplomats on the ground at the time would have been able to prevent this panic?"