one example is that trees shrubs andother native plants we recently planted along the avenue isaf. in collaboration with the area residents . so we try to meet very seriously our responsibilities to environmental stewardship and sustainability as the resources entrusted to our care and always in line with local food hubs. any questions? >> i do have a fewquestions . your map shows thewest side of the city and not the east . i know a lot of work is going on at the southeast treatment plant and there's also a part of thecity i represent , the northpoint plant and wondered what you have to say about those and why you're not on the map. >> only because most of the larger lands where we actually have the treatment arelocated on the westside . not any other particularreason . >> . [please stand by] . >> that was long overdue, i think, and i'm glad that we were able to take that on. it was something that, i think, was good for the city, and it came about as a result of our effort and came about with an estimate of how much it would cost to maintain the trees so we could see how much would

as a man who commanded the isaf in afghanistan for all those years, we haven't had a chance to sit andth you since the withdrawal from afghanistan just over a month ago. did president biden make the right call to pull up stakes completely out of afghanistan, and what do you expect that country to look like going forward? >> willie, thanks for asking. i think president biden made a difficult decision. remember, he had the cords negotiated by his predecessor's negotiators. he would have extended a war he had never been enthusiastic about. i think he made a courageous decision. it is not the decision that i would have made, or that i would have recommended. but i admit, i'm biassed about it. i spent a lot of time there. so i think now what we do is we've got a clear decision. we move forward. we see how we can still be helpful potentially to the people of afghanistan, and try to shape the religion with the new reality. >> and what would have been your decision, general? general petraeus said we should have left a small force to, sort of put out fires as they popped up threats to the unite

one example is that trees shrubs andother native plants we recently planted along the avenue isaf.in collaboration with the area residents . so we try to meet very seriously our responsibilities to environmental stewardship and sustainability as the resources entrusted to our care and always in line with local food hubs. any questions? >> i do have a fewquestions . your map shows thewest side of the city and not the east . i know a lot of work is going on at the southeast treatment plant and there's also a part of thecity i represent , the northpoint plant and wondered what you have to say about those and why you're not on the map. >> only because most of the larger lands where we actually have the treatment arelocated on the westside . not any other particularreason . >> . [please stand by] . >> that was long overdue, i think, and i'm glad that we were able to take that on. it was something that, i think, was good for the city, and it came about as a result of our effort and came about with an estimate of how much it would cost to maintain the trees so we could see how much would

the prime minister says he is not worried about rising prices and problems in the supply chain. isafe

did you recognize that as the beginning of the weakness in the isaf mission and were there issues at that point of intense interest to vice president biden? >> i'm sorry, that's going to have to be a question for the record, because the time has expired. ms. speier is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you all for your extraordinary service to our country. i want to just set the record straight on a couple of points. it was in 2017 that then-president trump relaxed rules of engagement for air strikes and there was a massive increase in civilian casualties. a 330% increase during trump's administration. compared to the previous ten years, there was a 95% increase in civilian deaths from 2017 to 2019. it was then president biden who in mid-2018 ordered talks with the taliban without the afghani leadership. and it was in february 2020 when that formal agreement was made. now, chairman milley, you identified the taliban as a terrorist organization. can you tell us anything about former president trump's intent to invite the taliban leadership to the united states or camp david