Joe Courtney actually said...

"I think we do it better in terms of quality and yield than anyone in the world."

"We have put the Afghan National Security Forces in the best possible position to be able to, at a minimum, hold, to stop the Taliban from taking back over the government."

"I would hate to see us walk away--or be seen as waking away from those gains."

"I encourage you, just in recognition of sort of maintaining the integrity of our effort, that we do everything we can to help the Afghans who have helped us, especially those translators."