Former Speaker of the House and Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman discuss images coming out of Afghanistan and the future of women in the country
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Catastrophe of his making,
I appreciate you
thank you for all your service.
Now the station chief former
speaker of the House,
Newt Gingrich, both Fox news
contributors. There is a clear
distinction. The Trump planet
was going to be based on
conditions on the ground factor.
Number one
factor number two is
Donald Trump was believed.
Donald Trump made a threat, they
believed it because he had a
track record. While ISIS grew
under Biden and Obama, ISIS was
systematically destroyed under
Donald Trump.
He said it ended it on the
Taliban new. What would happen if
they didnt abide by any
agreement that went on
they wouldnt have tried. This
under Trump would be my
argument.
Your thoughts.
First of all, I dont know
that Joe Biden has threatened
anybody with anything.
There is no way of knowing
it seems to be to attack your
allies. You know your enemies,
pretend that bad things arent
happening.
I watched the speech this
afternoon and for most people, if
you took what you were seeing,
live coming out of Afghanistan
of the crowds and the fear, the
takeover by the tablet band, and
then you looked at the speech by
this guy who was clearly totally
out of it, has no idea whats
going on and his number one goal
in that speech was to blame
anyone else. He said the buck
stops here.
He didnt mean that
it stops with the afghan army
stops with Donald Trump. But the
fact is, this is a major american
defeat that is going to have
huge consequences, as you pointed
out earlier, going to embolden
the Chinese, whether its in
Taiwan, with the south, China, Sea
or theyre, going to become
allies of the Taliban,
because they want the minerals
in which northern Afghanistan is
enormously rich and they will be
quite happy.
They dont care what the Taliban
does to women.
They just want the minerals,
as recently as last
Thursday, and you worked all
these years and the intelligence
community, they were telling us,
they wouldnt make it there for
another. Ninety days, at least
on every level, how could they
have been so wrong?
How could Joe Biden just a
couple of weeks ago be saying it
will never happen? The Taliban
will never be able to get back
in power, and now it is the
Emirates of Afghanistan. Here we
go
Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.
It is aspirational, wishful
foreign policy, just as the Biden
administration was arguing they
wanted to let they wanted to
take over the country by force, but that ignored the reality,
but that ignored the reality
that China and rest Russia, our
greatest ally, was a former
government of Afghanistan and
what really concerns me going
forward, is they used to own and
they had a sizable intelligence
community footprints. When we
served our mission to find and
fix those, so we could protect
and preempt threats, we had an
ability to preempt them.
We dont have that anymore and
the tell the band controls the
country. So what I wanted to hear
today- and I hope we hear soon
whats the plan to do with those
threats,
irony of ironies, at greater
risk of Afghanistan than we ever
have been before.
Mr Speaker, we have
one billion ten thousand Americans there and
control of the country or that
airport.
How do they get those Americans
home
its very disturbing that the
administration yesterday
wouldnt be automatically given
any kind of priority, which is
the opposite of the policy weve
always had up until now.
I think theres, a deeper thing
here
been around for a long time,
a set of goals, a religious
fanatic group
whats going to happen to women
and President George W Bush was
exactly right today. The
greatest thing he fears is whats, going to happen to young
whats, going to happen to young
girls and women
at a young woman from Iraq, who
had been captured by ISIS and
had basically passed around as
a thats. The kind of stuff they
see in Afghanistan and not a
single womens group on the left,
is up in arms over whats about
to happen.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-17.