![]() ![]() Do I say we're staying? And do you think we would not have to put a hell of a lot more troops? B- you know, we had hundreds- we had tens of thousands of troops there before. Less than two months after I elected to office, I was sworn in, all of a sudden, I have a May 1 deadline. We're agreeing to leave if you agree not to attack us between now and the time we leave on May the 1st." And here's the deal I wanna make with you, Taliban. Look, George, the reason why it's been stable for a year is because the last president said, "We're leaving. No one said that to me that I can recall. If I had said, "We're gonna stay," then we'd better prepare to put a whole hell of a lot more troops in -īIDEN: No. But the idea if I had said - I had a simple choice. You know, there wasn't any war."īut guess what? The fact was that the reason it wasn't happening is the last president negotiated a year earlier that he'd be out by May 1st and that- in return, there'd be no attack on American forces. ![]() Or do we put significantly more troops in? I hear people say, "Well, you had 2,500 folks in there and nothin' was happening. So the question was in the beginning the- the threshold question was, do we commit to leave within the timeframe we've set? We extended it to September 1st. ![]() When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government get in a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the ta- of the- Afghan troops we had trained - up to 300,000 of them just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was - you know, I'm not- this - that - that's what happened. When the- when the Taliban - let me back - put it another way. STEPHANOPOULOS: So when you look at what's happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment?īIDEN: Look, I don't think it was a fa- look, it was a simple choice, George. But no one said it was gonna take over then when it was bein' asked. BIDEN: Well, by the end of the year, I said that's that was - that was a real possibility. ![]()
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