well, we can now speak with scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer joining applied for an international scott. good to see you this evening. let's start with the substance of what's jewish. i just said he, he thinks us troops should not have withdrawn from background base until the evacuation was complete, unquote. senior leaders should be held accountable. is he right? first of all, the issue, accountability is 100 percent, correct? i mean, we have a failure of policy that seems to be driven by political objectives that overrode operational reality. we know that back in april, march april. ready u. s. military senior officers and senior intelligence. a community person's briefed the by white house, on what they deemed to be the situation on the ground afghan stand in the absolute need for the united states to maintain a significantly larger footprint than the one that the white house was allowing the white house to put a cap on the number of us troops that would be allowed to remain in afghanistan at around 60700. and the white house was told, this is, this is not d

scott ritter for my marine corps intelligence office. thanks a 1000000. appreciate it. thanks me. america. if that's the message or the president is taking to vietnam, those are those the right words for the locals. they're not sure about that. that story much more off for a quick break. the ah jain me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics, sport, business and show business. i'll see you then, in long long when i would show the same wrong. when all just don't the room. yes, to see out the same because the aptitude and engagement equal betrayal when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground. so long ago humor was the domain of social fatigue and a means for us to laugh at ourselves. and the comic was a person who had the guts and skill to say what all of us might have been thinking . this is no longer the case, it would see now humour is just another political weapon. and you know, it's not very funny. ah right now, 20 points. they are here in the russian capital to greece. now we're

we also heard from from a marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, who thinks that someone needs to be held accountable so that lessons could be learned. first of all, the issue accountability is 100 percent, correct? i mean, we have a failure of policy that seems to be driven by political objectives that overrode operational reality. there has to be accountability, or else there, there will be no lessons learned from this in the take. so on this point of origin occur sheller is 100 percent correct? i take umbrage it the way he got his message across. he was a really relief for cause because his job was to train young marines to be prepared to fight in future conflicts. his job was not to be critical of policies passed by is senior leadership. while i sympathize with his position, he had no right to do this a while he war uniform and he was fired. justifiably so we cannot have a situation where military officers feel that they have a duty to be critically outside of the chain of command about policies. they disagree with, or else we'd have chaos, an anarchy. we wouldn't have the

we spoke with former us intelligence officer, scott ritter, who thinks it's an attempt to deflect attention away from problems closer to home. i think there is a tendency to find a convenient cas blame on china when by an ordered this intelligence review. it was, it was after turn leaks to the press about intelligence information that were cherry picked by mike pump state department as part of heard of a go a gotcha paper. they were preparing to target, trying to your there's a need to seek some sort of deflection away from your failures in the u. s. policy. so they're, they're looking for a culprit. china is the logical corporate. now it's time for some world updates a wildfire that's been raging for 3 weeks, has now decimated a tiny california mountain community. leveling most of its historic downtown area and raising blocks of homes. aided by tinder dr education and fanned by strong winds. the dixie fire, as it's being named tor, through greenville, now building, stating back from the gold rush arrow were completely destroyed along with a school gas station. church, ho tell and museum re

in 90 days, we spoke with former us intelligence officer, scott ritter, who thinks it's an attempt to deflect attention away from the problems closer to home. i do know that in the united states we have a tendency to politicize intelligence. right now there is a i think there is a tendency to find a convenient cas blame on china. it was funny how the democrats opposed this when donald trump was doing it. but now that they are in power, there is a need to seek some sort of deflection away from your failures in the u. s. policy. so they're, they're looking for a culprit in china is the logical corporate. let's be clear. no one knows right now for sure how this virus guys got to be world updates on r t international law wildfire that's been raging for 3 weeks, has now decimated the tiny california mountain community leveling most of its historic downtown area and raising blocks of homes aided by tender dr agitation and fanned by strong winds, the dixie fire, as it's becoming named tor, through greenville buildings dating from the gold rush era were completely destroyed. along with a scho

that's why we're there. 15 years later, we spoke to scott ritter. he's a former marine corps intelligence officer. he believes that documents confirm what was an open secret. documents may not have been available. ready the information contained in these documents was well known to experts and specialists, and could have been well known to anybody who took the time to do the research. the reality is the united states has not had a co haired afghan policy since from the very beginning. look, defense companies in united states, you're going to profit whether or not, i mean the united states has one of the largest defense budgets in the world. the largest defense budget in the world, $700.00 plus $1000000000.00. and a lot, a good portion of this goes to, you know, the acquisition of weapons and material equipment from defense contractors. you know, afghan. stan was an opportunity for specific technologies and the companies associated with those technologies to come into prominence. and there was some money to be made. the surgeon people saying, i've go

we have scott ritter. he is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector. and in kabul, we have who stock or our him. he is a conflict. peace and security expert art tillman cross talk rules and effect. that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate when you go to scott, 1st, many of us watching this conflict for 2 decades expected this outcome was only the date that mattered most here. made my introduction, i said, i call it in a complete and utter failure. the american people are poor and no one is held account and if no one is how.

earlier we heard from scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer. he told us that places like one ton of mo, will bond to create extremists. the united states is very rarely has 100 percent accurate information on people. we detain the, these people for, for many years. if i were detained off the street as an innocent person and subjected to in humane treatment in an illegal facility for a number of years by an occupying party. and then i was released, my life would focus solely on killing those people. so when, when people get radicalized by undergoing an experience that no human being should be subjected to, we shouldn't be surprised. it's 100 percent counterproductive. i mean, anybody was, any brain knows that this is not how you go forward. mean lost and found the vice president has vowed to keep up this fight against the taliban. i'm really solid tweet to the he was still inside the country and was now in fact be acting president. now port say around $10000.00 afghan troops on the way to pun, ship province, to join the resistance. this area is

and scott ritter, that form of marine corps intelligence officer. let's try go live to the ask on capitol. of course we'll run guess dave is that we've got a pretty legacy delay between the 2 of those of course, just because of the technical issues. morale, we're hearing now. this is unconfirmed, but the getting reports coming in and that there been actually 2 explosions taking place in cobble. just give us what information you've managed to gather together so far. what we've heard that there was just one explosion that took place between the the baron hotel and the checkpoint at the airport. the there isn't a big distance between the 2. but what i can tell you from the casualty count that's been reported to 2 people dead, 15 injured as awful as that is. i can tell you from my experience that that is on the lower end of the spectrum, considering the press of bodies that we saw at the airport ringing the airport kilometers and kilometers. people jam packed together, just waiting for an opportunity to get into the airport. we've also heard of, of casu

we have scott ritter. he is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector. and in kabul, we have who stock or our him. he is a conflict. peace and security expert, or a gentleman, cross talk, rules and effects. that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate when we go to scott, 1st, many of us watching this conflict for 2 decades expected this outcome was only the date that mattered most here. made my introduction, i said, i call it in a complete and utter failure. the american people are poor and no one is held account. and if no one is held account, scott, then it's going to happen again. go ahead your thoughts. of course it's going to happen again. it's in the it's, it's in the d. n a or the united states. so when we intervene, we intervene using a american centered template that is designed to play k domestic political factions here in the united states, not to solve problems overseas. we've seen this almost everywhere. united states intervenes afghanistan was doomed to fail from the start because we didn't respect your posture and t

we have scott ritter. he is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector. and in kabul we have we stocked.

really appreciate the chance to speak to scott ritter, my guest for marine corps intelligence officer. thank you. thanks, prison biden broke his silence on the crisis on the day after the taliban had taken control of the country. he claimed that the u. s. mission in afghanistan was never about nation building our mission afghan. stan was never supposed to been nation building. it was never supposed to be created a unified, centralized democracy or only my last interest in again, stan remains today. what has always been preventing a terrorist attack on american homeland? the statement came in stark contrast the previous comments back in 2002 by the side . the failing to establish a solid national government in afghanistan might create a lawless, safe haven for anti america terrorist killable projects. a closer look at the president's history with the conflict. when you look at what's happening and afghan us, dan, you can hardly say that joe biden is blameless. he supported the war 1st in congress and then his vice president. and now he says that his decision for a sudden withdrawl is c

we had from scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer. he told us a places like one tom though, back to create extreme us. the united states is very rarely has 100 percent accurate information on people. we detained the these people for, for many years. if i were detained off the street as an innocent person and subjected to in humane treatment in an illegal facility for a number of years by an occupying party. and then i was released, my life would focus solely on killing those people. so when, when people get radicalized by undergoing an experience that no human being should be subjected to, we shouldn't be surprised. and it's 100 percent counterproductive. i mean, anybody with any brain knows that this is not how you go forward. after the taliban takeover, the red cross will keep back, can stop in afghanistan and continue providing assistance to sides. or recently the age organization reported since june the foster had treated 40000 people wounded and fighting, and the country all felt for august alone so far is 8000. the red cross dir