That he knew it probably was lets bring in representative Dan Crenshaw, congressman from the great state of Texas, retired Navy seal served in Afghanistan Congressman good morning to you Ainsley good morning, good morning, Steve. It is a dark day for America, because after twenty years of a trillion dollars thousands of lives, Afghanistan is lost. I mean the in competence of the Biden. Administration on this is really overwhelming. There needs to be resignations. There needs to be firings, they couldnt have done this in a worse way. We have american citizens left behind. We have people getting shot in Kabul Airport at this moment. Its such a complete disaster look, but I do have to say this to my fellow veterans, gold, star families that have made such big sacrifices. This does not mean it was all done in vein, and this gets to a broader point, which is why were we always there? Were we there fighting this war in any traditional sense? No, of course not.

We were there uplifting an afghan government that our allies so that there wouldnt be a terrorist, Safe Haven created the kind of safe haven that caused nine slash. Eleven, and do you know what all these veterans and the people have sacrificed have done over the last twenty years, prevented more nine, slash eleven and, unfortunately, that point has never made it to the american people, and this is what we get, because weve been relying on slogans like bring the troops, hope, Andno, more end, less wars and thats. What led to this? That kind of simplistic thinking is what led to this Brian. I one hundred percent agree with you, its your party too. That was doing this one hundred percent Brian. It was totally irresponsible, and I said what about the day when Kabul falls: are they going to say, blame Joe Biden? Unbelievable incompetence, no question: you could not do it worse. If you tried, it almost makes me wonder, is anyone even full time employees there they shouldnt even get benefits, but for Republicans who kept

saying we just got to end end less wars they had to know this day was coming. Look theres two choices you have in Afghanistan right, one is a residual security force and two is an islamic authoritarian theocrasy that kills a bunch of people and allows for a terrorist, Safe Haven just like before nine slash eleven. Those are your two choices and those have always been the two choices. Now look. The Biden administration screwed this up beyond belief, but this was always going to be the case if, with any kind of withdrawal like this, it just blows my mind that this is where weve come to ive been beating this drum for a long time trying to explain to people that you send people like me over there. So you fight them there, instead of here theres a lot of intelligence that demonstrates that the people there do want to commit terrorist attacks here on the homeland they always have. This is what they do. They hate western civilization and they are ideologically opposed to us, and that makes

people uncomfortable that fight is required, but just because you bring the troops home doesnt mean they will, because you want to end your endless war. Doesnt mean they want to, and I wish we lived in a different reality and if people want to live in that reality, they can go write a fiction book about it, but I live in the real world and the real world just got a lot more dangerous because offer this in competence. Ainsley congressman Nancy Pelosi over the weekend was praising Joe Bidens handling of this. Listen to this Steve. She said she wrote Ainsley. Oh sorry, the president is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action. The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions. We are concerned about reports regarding the Talibans brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls, whats your reaction to that again, its so unbelievable that she would commend Joe Biden for this ive. Seen other democrat congressmen do the same thing saying you know this was a tough decision by Joe Biden and he made the right one

as if the current outcome is better than a moment more of our troops on the ground. I mean again, those are your choices. The current outcome, which is a complete unmitigated disaster or troops on the ground in a more responsible way, even just for a few more months, I mean just to develop a plan because its pretty obvious to me that our Department of Defense did not develop a plan to do this and for them to just blow past that or blame trump or something else or blame the afghan army as theyve been doing youre trying to teach a guy to swim as hes drowning as you pull the life raft away. Look this notion that this brand new- I mean it- is brand new in the grand timeline of history. Twenty years is not a lot of time to build up a competent force that can stop an insurgence as vicious as the Taliban, its very difficult as it turns out, because the Taliban can

inner mix with civilians. They dont care about civilian casualties. They have roadside bombs everywhere. This is such a different kind of fight and just to expect that the afghan army could just defend it as if youre playing cowboys and Indians, it doesnt work that way, Steve right, im, so sick of people with no tactical experience making these decisions and again this is what, when we allow hollow slogans for foreign policy. Brian president Bidens statement said when I became president. I faced a choice, follow through on the deal with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies out forces out safely or ramp up our presence and send more Americans to fight once again in other countries, civil conflict and im. The fourth president: to do this im not going to pass this on to somebody else, were those his only two options, of course not and thats a great point about what our options are. Look, because, unfortunately, so many people when they hear about our presence in Afghanistan, all they hear is nation building. All they hear is two hundred thousand troops nation building, and they are like thats just too much.

Why are we doing it? There will never be a democracy, but guess what I agree with you, but theres a lot in between that and a hasty withdrawal and the outcome. We have now theres a lot in between and that in between looked like what we had over the last few years, you have a residual force. Thats, pretty small can conduct counterterrorism operations keeps the enemy at Bay, takes some of the fight to them, so they dont take. It here were accomplishing our strategic goals in that way and look to say this is an endless war. Weve been at a combat casualty in Afghanistan for eighteen months for eighteen months, all right, so you got a question like what is the hurry here and what do we get out of it by leaving because we havent gotten anything out of leaving weve just made the people who like to scream slogans like bring the troops home, made them feel better, but thats all weve, gotten and thats a really bad trade off, because look. What we did have before was maybe an air base thats. Only a few hundred miles from China bases right next to our strategic enemy. Iran and we were denying

a terrorist safe haven again, the kind of safe haven that caused nine slash eleven and the world just got a lot more dangerous because our leaders did plot want to do that. Cost benefit analysis, Steve and Congressman the world just got a lot more dangerous for the people in Afghanistan who assisted us during our twenty years. There thats why we see all these people climbing on the airplane going up the jetway, even though the doors arent open because thats their only way out- and it sounds like the United States Government- needs to get eighty eight thousand people out of Afghanistan or they are going to wind up dead, its so frustrating but at the same time, im sure youre frustrated, because I saw you were treating over the weekend. You sent this out to Jack doors it who runs twitter Jack. Why does the Taliban get an account? You see why Americans are pod about your bs standards. So let me get this straight Taliban, which is a terrorist organization still allowed to post anything they want on Twitter. At the meantime, how many republicans have been taken off twitter for a variety of

reasons, Brian, including president Trump? This is what causes this distrust in our tech giants in our institutions, its so beyond the pale and Jack would say: well, they havent technically violated our community standards, so its like okay yeah, because they are just doing announcements, but those announcements lead to deaths and destruction and terrorist acts. You know its very clear thats. The official account the official public affairs Account of the Taliban, its just infuriating. To see this stuff, I mean theres a double standard for conservatives to no end Ainsley. Why does China want to have friendly relations with the Taliban? Chinas foreign minister is calling Taliban a pivotal military and political force, well, chinas extremely transactional. What China wants is the vast rich mineral resources in Afghanistan,

its a very resource, rich country. They want that they want to exploit it, and it really is as simple as that they dont have the same standards that we do. We tend to care about who we interact with we care about their human rights violations. Things like that, but China is one of the biggest human rights violators, so they certainly dont care about that. They are extremely transactional. Brian. They dont want chaos on their border, theres, so much to discuss, because now President Biden is going to come out tonight or tomorrow and make some speeches, someone wrote for him and the prompter will be too far away and were supposed to buy it, but I just hope the american people understand if they could have heard your argument of. Why were there not to setup a democracy but its in our national interest? They would have understood. Instead they say they get survey. Questions of. Do you want to stay in Afghanistan? What do you expect their answer to be? But if you said here is why its in our national interest, all we needed is a leader to frame it

that way and the people would have understood and its not a spin, its the truth, thats exactly right. The biggest failure of the last couple decades is the lack of communication with the american people on this, and it just to the point where they cant hear these arguments anymore. Its exactly like you said: if youre asked a survey question, do you want to leave well yeah I mean I want to leave, but what you also have to present the trade off of leaving, if youre, going to present that question its like? Well, do you want free healthcare yeah? I want free healthcare. Well, what are the trade off of getting that free healthcare because nothing is free? All policy decisions are about tradeoffs and those tradeoffs were nod made clear to the american people, the no more endless wars crowd which is bypassed that argument. They would just bypass the question of what be created in a vacuum. They would just bypass the question of what risks are you willing to take if theres a terrorist, safe haven? What risks are you willing to

take to the homeland? They ignore these question as if they dont exist again, because theyre observing a world that does not exist, they are observing a fictional world and the rest of us have to live in the real world. Brian. The real world was we on the air when the planes hit on nine slash eleven and those are the people responsible, Taliban and Al Qaeda think exactly alike. They are all for the same objective of coming back and paying back and youll see it by the way. The afghan allies of ours left behind untreated, be headed women burned alive because their hair was exposed during these provincial invasions along the way, for some reason were not seeing that video and hearing those stories Ainsley hands, cutoff cant go to school or work if youre a woman Brian its happening now, Steve Dan Crenshaw. Thank you.