00:00When you look at what's happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution, or judgment?
00:08Look, I don't think it was a failure. Look, it was a simple choice, George.
00:12When the Taliban, let me put it another way, when you had the government of Afghanistan,
00:22the leader of that government, getting in a plane and taking off and going to another country,
00:25when you saw the significant collapse of the Afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them,
00:35just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was, you know, I'm not, that's what happened.
00:42That's simply what happened.
00:43But we've all seen the pictures. We've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17.
00:48We've seen Afghans falling.
00:50That was four days ago, five days ago.
00:52What did you think when you first saw those pictures?
00:54What I thought was we have to gain control of this.
00:57We have to move this more quickly.
01:00We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport.
01:04And we did.
01:05So you don't think this could have been handled, this actually could have been handled better in any way?
01:10No mistakes?
01:11No, I don't think it could have been handled in a way that there, we're going to go back in
01:17hindsight and look.
01:18But the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that
01:25happens.
01:26I don't know how that happened.
01:27So for you that was always priced into the decision?
01:30Yes.
01:30You just look up.
01:30Thank you.
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