00:00I stand squarely behind my decision.
00:04After 20 years, I've learned the hard way
00:08that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.
00:13That's why we're still there.
00:16We were clear-eyed about the risks.
00:19We planned for every contingency.
00:21But I always promised the American people that I would be straight with you.
00:25The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.
00:32So what's happened?
00:35Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country.
00:40The Afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight.
00:46If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced
00:51that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now
00:55was the right decision.
00:58American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war
01:03and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
01:08Then we asked him to fight over theACE.
01:08Veterans ofτοes.
01:08...
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