There`s no good time to leave Afghanistan. Getting out would be messy no matter when it occurred.

I think the polling and just they suggest most people in the U.S. even recognizing the tragedies that are happening right now, that even recognizing that there are -- this was not -- not a wise use of American power.

The past week has been heartbreaking. We have seen gut-wrenching images of panicked people acting out of sheer desperation. You know, it's completely understandable. They're frightened. They're sad, uncertain what happens next. I don't…

There is just no elegant way to end a losing war.

I am making the same commitment to any Afghans who want to get out.

Unfortunately, as we`ve seen throughout this pandemic, some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures, that is, children wearing masks in school, into political disputes for their own political gain. Some are even trying to…

No. Not at -- not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn`t argue against that.

I don’t think any one of us can see these pictures, and not feel that pain on a human level.

It would not be a great thing to happen.

It's my land, it's your land.

Our military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31. The drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way.

I'm not responsible for.

No, I don`t think it could have been handled in a way that there -- we were going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there`s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don`t know how that happens.

While many of the Afghanistan people are good people, they’re bad ones too, don’t like Americans and our Western way of life. Resettling them in the United States, so our country becomes a refugee camp, is not the answer.

We`re going to do everything in our power to get all Americans out and our allies out.

In America, we play political games at the voting box, not with guns and with explosive devices.

The idea that the Taliban would take over was premised on the notion that the somehow the 300,000 troops we had trained and equipped was going to just collapse, are going to give up. I don`t think anybody anticipated that.

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