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petraeus: yeah. and, look, i'm conscious of the psychological effect that that has on afghanistan, but we are where we are. we put ourselves where we are by this very rapid decision to draw down. i must confess that i think there had to be some degree of disbelief in the ranks of our military and, frankly, i think our other departments as well. we've been scrambling to draw down, handing off bases to the afghans, and again, i feared that we would end up in quite a desperate situation. and that seems to be the direction which this is headed. and of course, at a certain point, al-qaeda and the islamic state will reestablish sanctuaries there. i don't see a threat to the homeland in the near future, but needless to say, we'll see what they're capable of doing, and we are going to have to play very close attention. i know that the intelligence community is vastly better and vastly better equipped and much more capable, both in terms of systems and capabilities and also processes, than prior to 9/11. none
petraeus: yeah. and, look, i'm conscious of the psychological effect that that has on afghanistan, but we are where we are. we put ourselves where we are by this very rapid decision to draw down. i must confess that i think there had to be some degree of disbelief in the ranks of our military and, frankly, i think our other departments as well. we've been scrambling to draw down, handing off bases to the afghans, and again, i feared that we would end up in quite a desperate situation. and that...
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petraeus: it does. what we should be doing any time there is an islamic extremists, and tt is to keep pressure on them, keep them, and when necessary and possible, to disrupt their capabilities, so that they cannot develop the kind of ability to project terrorist actions that al qaeda had, of course, manifest in the 9/11 attacks, or the islamic state demonstrated in motivating, planning, encouraging attacks in europe at the height of the islamic state caliphate in syria and in iraq. i think we should have learned, in fact, during the last 20 years of war that these are not fights in which you can take the hill, plant the flag, and go home and do a victory parade. rather, you have to have a sustained but sustainable presence we should have learned from the withdrawal of iraq, after which al qaeda in iraq, now known as the islamic state, was able to reconstitute itself. you should keep pressure, you should keep an eye on them. laura: general david petraeus, thank you so much for joining us. gen. petraeus:
petraeus: it does. what we should be doing any time there is an islamic extremists, and tt is to keep pressure on them, keep them, and when necessary and possible, to disrupt their capabilities, so that they cannot develop the kind of ability to project terrorist actions that al qaeda had, of course, manifest in the 9/11 attacks, or the islamic state demonstrated in motivating, planning, encouraging attacks in europe at the height of the islamic state caliphate in syria and in iraq. i think we...
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. >> i will ask general david petraeus, who once commanded u.s. and allied troops in afghanistan. >>> also, thousands of cubans take to the streets, marking the most significant unrest there in decades. cries for freedom rang out as did demands for regime change. is that likely to happen after 60 years of castros and communism? i'll ask an expert. >>> then, surely you've heard of president harry truman, but what about eddie jacobson? everybody knows of richard nixon, of course, but do they know of bebe rebozo. these unsung characters were the closest confidants of the man in the oval office. i'll talk to author gary ginsberg about his terrific new book, "first friends." >>> but first, here's my take. we're now a year and a half into the pandemic, which is enough time to start looking back and drawing real lessons, especially when comparing it to the last great jolt to the international system, the global financial crisis. did we learn any lessons from 2008? have we handled this one any better? at first glance, the comparison would seem to favor th
. >> i will ask general david petraeus, who once commanded u.s. and allied troops in afghanistan. >>> also, thousands of cubans take to the streets, marking the most significant unrest there in decades. cries for freedom rang out as did demands for regime change. is that likely to happen after 60 years of castros and communism? i'll ask an expert. >>> then, surely you've heard of president harry truman, but what about eddie jacobson? everybody knows of richard nixon, of...
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i think the question that i focus on with general petraeus and we need to think about is how we keepho work for us. who were interpreters for our front line combat units, who are now targeted if as we leave that they will be vulnerable to reprisal attacks from taliban and supporters. it's really important that we do everything question to get the people out to safety. i think president biden has affirmed that recently. of it's good he has. it was an important report in "the new york times" this morning saying that president biden's slowing slightly the pace of the u.s. withdraw allowing us to stay longer than he planned. allowing u.s. contractors to stay longer. these are all important things. the scenes of panic and pain for afghan people are going to be difficult for all of us. >> yeah. by some estimates 9,000 offer so afghan that's worked with the americans trying to get help or relocated. let me ask you, david, finally, if there is a difference between america's military might now and before it was 9/11, meaning you don't necessarily have to be in afghanistan for america to still
i think the question that i focus on with general petraeus and we need to think about is how we keepho work for us. who were interpreters for our front line combat units, who are now targeted if as we leave that they will be vulnerable to reprisal attacks from taliban and supporters. it's really important that we do everything question to get the people out to safety. i think president biden has affirmed that recently. of it's good he has. it was an important report in "the new york...
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general petraeus, your insight is invaluable. thank you so much.on to the battlefield interpreters who served two years on the ground with our soldiers to qualify for a special immigrant visa and we have to be absolutely certain that we get them out of the country and take care of them whether it's to for the lee, virginia or to a third country and thanks. >> brian: got it general david petraeus, thanks. people listening i'm sure. it looks like he has made it will cain is in the house, wearing jeans, looking cool halfway dressed. >> brian: very tough at jfk. he made it will cain goes on the clock unless he refuses. limu, you're an animal! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. [jungle music] here we go. ♪♪ ♪ so i'd like to know where you got the notion ♪ ♪ to rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't tip the boat over ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪
general petraeus, your insight is invaluable. thank you so much.on to the battlefield interpreters who served two years on the ground with our soldiers to qualify for a special immigrant visa and we have to be absolutely certain that we get them out of the country and take care of them whether it's to for the lee, virginia or to a third country and thanks. >> brian: got it general david petraeus, thanks. people listening i'm sure. it looks like he has made it will cain is in the house,...
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wasn't made by trump, biden doesn't agree with it and it wasn't made by obama. >> general david petraeusd and he doesn't agree with you on that. i guess my point is the americans have reason in an educated way taking in the opinions of experts to say, yes, that confirms that there should not be u.s. troops there. >> that may be their opinion. i'm not disputing the survey as correct. i think the arguments have not been made by the top leadership of america long enough to be able to convince them. when you have an absence of debate, it's very easy for people to get a misimpression. this is an act of national security malpractice, i think, both by the trump and by the biden administrations. and i fear greatly, but it's innocent people who will pay the price. >> do you look back on the mistakes made during the bush administration and realize that has a lot to do with why americans think that this is not a good idea? >> well, i don't think they have necessarily thought through what's right and what's wrong about it. what was right was to strike al qaeda and to do the damage to it that we did.
wasn't made by trump, biden doesn't agree with it and it wasn't made by obama. >> general david petraeusd and he doesn't agree with you on that. i guess my point is the americans have reason in an educated way taking in the opinions of experts to say, yes, that confirms that there should not be u.s. troops there. >> that may be their opinion. i'm not disputing the survey as correct. i think the arguments have not been made by the top leadership of america long enough to be able to...
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now to one of the questions i now ask myself about everything in life is one retired general david petraeus always asks and he has become a very good friend. he was involved in afghanistan and iraq and rant central command in the cia are of my time. i know him well but his question is how will this end and we didn't have to question enough. the fog of -- the title of the speech i gave at georgetown law school about a year after iraq, i'm not exactly sure when it was that i coded up all the things we were doing and they are still doing because it's too hard to answer hard questions and said it's very unclear especially with the folks tiering out these programs like they are supposed to do and don't have a legal framework around the whole thing. that turned out for example in the first term of lush 43 that a lot of what we were doing in the surveillance area was not in compliance and i didn't know this at the time was not in compliance with the law that relates to the foreign intelligence surveillance act. why was nick? the wasn't because vice president cheney and others assumed that congress
now to one of the questions i now ask myself about everything in life is one retired general david petraeus always asks and he has become a very good friend. he was involved in afghanistan and iraq and rant central command in the cia are of my time. i know him well but his question is how will this end and we didn't have to question enough. the fog of -- the title of the speech i gave at georgetown law school about a year after iraq, i'm not exactly sure when it was that i coded up all the...
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. >> reporter: general david petraeus after nearly a decade of war -- >> your thoughts?reporter: taking off from this base in a combat mission. we are upside down, over the mountains. after all these years, all these missions, the taliban is gaining strength as afghan forces surrender or are massacred through districts across the country. the majority of the districts that have been taken are many miles from here in kabul. the big question is what happens here when all the u.s. forces leave afghanistan? we travelled to the outskirts of cabal to the home of a taliban elder, a senior leader when the taliban was in charge of this country. >> the taliban is taking over many districts in afghanistan. will they come here to kabul? [speaking foreign language] there's no doubt said the elder. that's a clear concern for general miller. >> what's happening now? how alarmed are you? >> we should be concerned. the loss of terrain and the repeating of that loss of terrain has to be concerning. one, it's a war that's physical, but it's also got a psychological component to it. hope ma
. >> reporter: general david petraeus after nearly a decade of war -- >> your thoughts?reporter: taking off from this base in a combat mission. we are upside down, over the mountains. after all these years, all these missions, the taliban is gaining strength as afghan forces surrender or are massacred through districts across the country. the majority of the districts that have been taken are many miles from here in kabul. the big question is what happens here when all the u.s....
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. >> we spoke with general david petraeus who commanded troops and he says this doesn't -- even as he was critical of the draw down, he doesn't think this is going to lead to a situation where u.s. national security is threatened. so in that situation, even if there are atrocities committed by the taliban, even if this is a failed state, is that a political problem for joe biden here domestically? >> he hopes not. and you make a key point. look, is the taliban going to -- the taliban is neanderthal when it comes to education, when it comes to political rights, when it comes to women's rights. are there going to be headlines that are embarrassing for the american administration? without a doubt. without a doubt, that is the history of the taliban. but is there an al qaeda-like group or resurgence of al qaeda that can project terrorism internationally from within afghanistan? if the answer to that question is no, then the biden administration will be, yes, afghanistan is messy, afghanistan has always been messy. we will do what we can, but it is not worth more american troops, more amer
. >> we spoke with general david petraeus who commanded troops and he says this doesn't -- even as he was critical of the draw down, he doesn't think this is going to lead to a situation where u.s. national security is threatened. so in that situation, even if there are atrocities committed by the taliban, even if this is a failed state, is that a political problem for joe biden here domestically? >> he hopes not. and you make a key point. look, is the taliban going to -- the...
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. >> reporter: former cia director david petraeus e-mailed me this, a comprehensive approach is needed with sanctions among the many components of such an approach, and former nsa director mike rogers told me today the u.s. needs to realize that a pure law enforcement response hasn't worked in the past, and these criminals have now used all the money they've made over the past six months or so to make themselves as powerful as only nation states used to be rogers also said the u.s. can use cyber capabilities to go after the hackers' infrastructure including targeting the ways that they move money or destroying, degrading and denying access to their own tools and infrastructure but shep, admiral rogers also said that cyber attacks like piracy and crime itself are probably here to stay. the u.s. goal, he said, should be to bring it down to a manageable level, and that starts with recognizing just how bad it's gotten, shep. >> eamon, thank you. >>> the president of haiti assassinated, the prime minister reports gunman broke into the president's house, and shot him dead his wife now critic
. >> reporter: former cia director david petraeus e-mailed me this, a comprehensive approach is needed with sanctions among the many components of such an approach, and former nsa director mike rogers told me today the u.s. needs to realize that a pure law enforcement response hasn't worked in the past, and these criminals have now used all the money they've made over the past six months or so to make themselves as powerful as only nation states used to be rogers also said the u.s. can...
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david petraeus, former u.s.commander in afghanistan and former director of the cia on president biden's plan to withdraw u.s. forces from afghanistan. david: welcome to washington post live. this summer, u.s. troops will withdraw from afghanistan after a war that's lasted two decades. we will be taking a close look this morning at that withdrawal and the implications for some of the afghans who have helped us in that war.
david petraeus, former u.s.commander in afghanistan and former director of the cia on president biden's plan to withdraw u.s. forces from afghanistan. david: welcome to washington post live. this summer, u.s. troops will withdraw from afghanistan after a war that's lasted two decades. we will be taking a close look this morning at that withdrawal and the implications for some of the afghans who have helped us in that war.
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. >> whether you hear retired general petraeus, telling you it would be quicker to put a rover on marstely. it's a 14-step process and takes an average two years. because thousands of dollars for the families. the medical exams, cost of travel to the u.s. is sometimes the biggest hurdle to take them out of a gan stan and harm's way. >> what are these interpreters doing as they await approve? >> hi, anthony, they're praying that the taliban doesn't regain full control of the country while they're there. and they know that's been happening. as taliban forces regain control, they fear they'll be assass nalted. that's why they want to get out first and then figure out a way to get to the u.s. >> do you feel the u.s. is doing everything they can to get them out because of the role they played was usual, it would be right to do them right at this time? >> i think the answer is no. we withdrawal all the remaining troops from afghanistan without a plan to have these people out of danger. and now we're scrambling to get them out. i don't think that's at a pace where we're securing these people'
. >> whether you hear retired general petraeus, telling you it would be quicker to put a rover on marstely. it's a 14-step process and takes an average two years. because thousands of dollars for the families. the medical exams, cost of travel to the u.s. is sometimes the biggest hurdle to take them out of a gan stan and harm's way. >> what are these interpreters doing as they await approve? >> hi, anthony, they're praying that the taliban doesn't regain full control of the...
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he is right up there with dave petraeus and one of the best commanders our country has ever produced.e restaurant in northern california. taco loco has posted a slow service sign to warn customers. because of government hand-outs nobody wants to work anymore. the owner is asking for patience for the staffers who are showing up. you had experience with this when you were down in north carolina. >> bill: it's the same story every week in every part of the country. >> dana: they maintain there is no data that says it but you hear it repeatedly from the restaurant owners and managers trying to make it a go. >> bill: in the meantime firefighters struggling to contain the largest fire of the year in california the beckwith fire burning more than 20,000 acres. extreme heat, bone dry conditions fueling the flames that has destroyed at least 20 homes. it has been hot out there. it has been dry and this is what you see as a result. we're watching that from the west coast. >> dana: over in georgia there is outrage as we learn the man charged with murdering a golf pro and two others reportedly ha
he is right up there with dave petraeus and one of the best commanders our country has ever produced.e restaurant in northern california. taco loco has posted a slow service sign to warn customers. because of government hand-outs nobody wants to work anymore. the owner is asking for patience for the staffers who are showing up. you had experience with this when you were down in north carolina. >> bill: it's the same story every week in every part of the country. >> dana: they...
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for the most part there was good leadership under people like general mcchrystal, general petraeus, generalncan. some of the best military leaders i have seen in action. they were concerned about allowing their own forces to protect themselves and go after the enemy hard but also not kill innocent afghans. that's a difficult challenge in a place like this where the enemy is trying to inside of the civilian population. -- to hide inside of the civilian populations. which means we should have kept the drones and a couple of bases. not a lot but a couple. we had downsized to that level of effort under president trump and then president obama. i think that's where president biden should have kept our effort and we could have cap -- kept using the drones. you cannot easily fly the men from qatar or bahrain or kuwait in the persian gulf, they were made for short range. we would have to keep a couple big american bases and that's what president biden has just decided to eliminate. host: out of the beehive state, this is jl, inlets all -- in utah. caller: i appreciate the topic thank you for taking
for the most part there was good leadership under people like general mcchrystal, general petraeus, generalncan. some of the best military leaders i have seen in action. they were concerned about allowing their own forces to protect themselves and go after the enemy hard but also not kill innocent afghans. that's a difficult challenge in a place like this where the enemy is trying to inside of the civilian population. -- to hide inside of the civilian populations. which means we should have...
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slamming the biden administration petraeus slamming the decision says country on verge of a brutalitywe've got a vacuum china will step in. >> year going to end up with taliban back in power a brutal regime taking away newfound rights of women's to have education careers few found life, ended in 2014 we did intel planning air sport, my former white house colleague mark has a great podcast with danny his colleagues at american enterprise institute pointed out biden was the guy went in 2011 before withdrawal of to tell iraqis u.s. was going to leave iraq toldp thank you for allowing me, to quote end the blankety blank war it didn't end we had going back in with rise of isis the same thing here withdrawing american support troops situation in afghanistan we are going to create an enemy in middle of critical region would have world can use it as a place to attack us this talk about endless war we want to end the longest war america has ever bone baloney the longest war we've been in ended in 1945 in europe we still have u.s. troops in europe to rein in have expansive russia we have armist
slamming the biden administration petraeus slamming the decision says country on verge of a brutalitywe've got a vacuum china will step in. >> year going to end up with taliban back in power a brutal regime taking away newfound rights of women's to have education careers few found life, ended in 2014 we did intel planning air sport, my former white house colleague mark has a great podcast with danny his colleagues at american enterprise institute pointed out biden was the guy went in 2011...
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people like general petraeus coming out against the move by president biden to withdraw troops. was surge. but the speed and success of it caught u.s. military intelligence agents and white house off guard. they didn't think it would be this rapid. this has not as of now changed the white house plan. president biden is committed to and has been for a long time pulling out troops there, honoring the agreement made by president trump as he puts it, but also a belief he had long before he took office on january 20th. feels like the mission was accomplished there, didn't use those words, but they're not there to build a nation state, they were there to root out terrorists. president biden a few weeks ago predicted that afghanistan would be held by a combination of governments, one government wouldn't hold it. now if you were going to suggest one government would, that government would be the taliban, one organization. that's obviously a great worry. for now, the president doesn't want to commit new forces there. >> open question, what america's role is if the taliban overruns the co
people like general petraeus coming out against the move by president biden to withdraw troops. was surge. but the speed and success of it caught u.s. military intelligence agents and white house off guard. they didn't think it would be this rapid. this has not as of now changed the white house plan. president biden is committed to and has been for a long time pulling out troops there, honoring the agreement made by president trump as he puts it, but also a belief he had long before he took...
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i mean, the depth and petraeus e have given up is staggering.about us, even things like they create a light they connect all the dots and know everything you do. if you are pregnant, they can tell that by the changes in your habits and what you search online. and they can, you know, they can manipulate a child that has anxiety by constantly reinforcing the things that give that child anxiety. and things like 23 and me. these companies that use, you know, your d.n.a. to tell you all about your history. that they are selling that information to people like, you know, insurer,s, medical insurers and all the people that you don't want to have that information are getting it and everything that has a back door. and that the government has literally spying on us in every means possible. and how the phone companies, the tech companies they have sold us out. and there is no such thing as the fourth amendment anymore. all of those things, in fact, there is so much, brian, it's difficult to name it all. brian: the first episode which drops today privacy i
i mean, the depth and petraeus e have given up is staggering.about us, even things like they create a light they connect all the dots and know everything you do. if you are pregnant, they can tell that by the changes in your habits and what you search online. and they can, you know, they can manipulate a child that has anxiety by constantly reinforcing the things that give that child anxiety. and things like 23 and me. these companies that use, you know, your d.n.a. to tell you all about your...