… women, the fact that we withdrew from Bagram Air Force Base and gave the Taliban and ultimately the Chinese tens of billions of dollars of military equipment, the fact that We lost our intelligence capability, which was focused on Pakistan, which has real risk from terrorist elements within that society. was just a debacle of the highest order. But what it did was it sent a signal to the world that America's weak. And all of you can remember the basic lessons of the playground. (22:00–22:11)
CLAIM
Asserts that the withdrawal from Afghanistan compromised intelligence operations in Pakistan.
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