These carefully targeted actions are
designed to disrupt the use of
Afghanistan
as a terrorist base of operations and in
Afghanistan
we're increasing our troops
military power alone will not bring
peace to Afghanistan or stop the
terrorist threat
and it's time to end the forever war
we're pursuing long-term victory in this
war by promoting democracy in the middle
east
so that the nations of that region no
longer breed hatred
and terror it remained America's view
after the cold war particularly if there
were going to be countries that were not
western democracies that were going to
be breeding grounds for terrorism after
9 11 George w bush moved into that camp
but we've also got
an ideology based upon liberty which
stands in stark contrast to the ideology
of the thugs and murderers called the
Taliban the danger with the bush
administration's foreign policy and
their characterization of the threat as
regime based is that it lends itself to
overreach
all of a sudden you have an axis of evil
in North Korea and Syria and Iraq and
Iran
and that distracts from the central
mission in Afghanistan
American and coalition forces are in the
early stages of military operations to
disarm Iraq to free its people
presidents very rarely
after their presidency say I made lots
of mistakes
he still supports his decisions to
invade Afghanistan and Iraq
our goal is to destroy al Qaeda and we
are on a path to do exactly that I think
Barack Obama's was much more realistic
and it was much more accurate about the
capacity for the united states
afghans are responsible for the security
of their nation
and we build an equal partnership
between two sovereign states
a future in which war ends
and a new chapter begins Afghanistan is
far more peripheral as a national
security issue particularly after
the death of Osama bin laden
the united states have conducted an
the operation that killed Osama bin laden
the leader of al Qaeda
the mistake was in
the surge decision the theory of
counterinsurgency and how we were going
to
win the war changed
we are a partner and a friend but we
will not dictate to the Afghan people
how to live
or how to govern their complex
society
because he had
virtually no political experience except
for running for president I don't think
that he had a vision for Afghanistan the
view of Donald Trump was to eliminate
American forces and indeed he started
so-called peace talks with the Taliban
there hasn't been a moment like this
we've had
very successful negotiations we think
they'll be successful at the end and i
think the trump administration and those
negotiating that deal felt a lot of that
same pressure
that they wanted to
get a deal before they left office the
human rights element
which had been so central to u.s foreign
the policy was not important to those
empowered we are not nation-building
again
we are killing terrorists
I made the decision
to buck stops with me
Biden is interesting because he's very
much shaped by personal experience
I carry that burden every day
just as I did when I was vice president
my son was deployed to Iraq for a year
and the view was that we were not really
going to be able to create a democratic
republic
in a culture in a society with ancient
tribal and religious differences i
cannot and will not ask our troops to
fight
on endlessly another in another
country's civil war the Biden
the administration was trying to adhere to a
the deadline that it inherited and that it
didn't want to change
the idea that somehow there's a way to
have gotten out without chaos ensuing i
don't know how that happens I would hope
that it would have shaped all four of
the presidents the way Vietnam tended to
shape presidents if I look across the
four presidencies
I would sum it up succinctly by saying
it was a success followed by a failure
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