Brian welcome back thanks to your service i'd when they were going back and forth about

what we're wrong in afghanistan on that exit how important is it to you to find out

whose decision that was and and how uh... preventable it turned out to be?

Well, extremely important.

Number one, I'm an Afghan, I'm a veteran of the Afghan war.

I've buried, I spent a lot of time there, buried friends there,

as an intelligence officer, where I've recruited assets officer where I've

asked Afghans to help us and in trade we won't leave you behind and we did

and we did my outfit Grey rainbow rescue.org. We're an international

we're a veteran-led international rescue organization.

We're still pulling people, Americans and green cardholders out of Afghanistan

three years later. So and we're entirely donor funded. So purely from a

selfish perspective the cost of the withdrawal and the way it went down is

extreme. Just from a very personal perspective is a who runs a team of people

that have to go in and go get people. So it's extremely important. It's a black mark on our

handshake. As Americans Americans our values are about honor and integrity.

We're supposed to be the beacons of morality.

There's a reason why Guatemalans are flocking to America and Americans are not flocking to

Guatemala because we're an awesome country. We have our problems and that's great

but when we talk about Afghanistan it's a it's a very dishonorable thing and the reality is there are only two people in our

system of government that are allowed to deploy troops the president of

states and the secretary defense that's it all the generals, they're the chairman of the

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