1/2: #Afghanistan: Classified blame-shifting of a 21st century tragedy & What is to be done. Bill Roggio, FDD. LongWarJournal.com. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
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1/2: #Afghanistan: Classified blame-shifting of a 21st century tragedy & What is to be done. Bill Roggio, FDD. LongWarJournal.com. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3938380-read-pentagons-afghanistan-withdrawal-report-to-congress/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:10.2 | I welcome my colleagues, Bill Rojo, Senior Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense |
| 0:15.4 | of Democracy, keeping the Long-Word Journal. |
| 0:19.2 | And Hussein O'Conning, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States now at |
| 0:22.6 | Thutson Institute, a Senior Fellow. |
| 0:25.2 | To comment on recent news about Afghanistan and the withdrawal from Afghanistan in the |
| 0:30.5 | middle of 2021, the CBS News headline reads this way, Biden administration blames Trump |
| 0:37.8 | in part for chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. |
| 0:42.5 | Reuters takes another version of the report which we do not have. |
| 0:47.7 | It's classified. |
| 0:48.7 | We just have remarks by the administration. |
| 0:51.9 | Reuters writes, Biden Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic US withdrawal. |
| 0:58.1 | Gentlemen, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:59.7 | What we have of the report is very little. |
| 1:02.9 | Just comments by the White House speakers, especially John Kirby, who speaks for the National |
| 1:08.0 | Security Council. |
| 1:11.4 | Mr. Kirby says that the Trump administration had negotiated in an even earlier May 2021 |
| 1:19.2 | withdrawal date. |
| 1:20.9 | The date that we know is history is August 2021. |
| 1:24.9 | And it had the Trump administration also ordered a series of US troop reductions that left |
| 1:29.8 | the Taliban in a strong position. |
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