I believe that there is nothing that our strategic competitors like China or Russia would have liked more than for President Biden to have reupped the war in Afghanistan.
We want to make sure that we are doing whatever we can to support these efforts.
We would do everything within our means to have their backs, and so would many other countries around the world.
We want to make sure that that does not happen, because if people lose faith and confidence in it...
It certainly runs counter to those goals, whenever there are civilian casualties, whenever there are unintended injuries...
But as an institution, after 20 years of investment by the United States, by the international community, hundreds of bi...
Yes, except that those conditions were so loose, particularly with regard to commitments it made.
I would call it very, very significant.
No, we did not.
We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan.
That required some coordination with them to get people through and to the airport.