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Derrick Van Orden: “We should have maintained the levels that were presented. So…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden

Published | Video Starts at 38:29

Yeah. There's other stuff. Riding motorcycles. And you were in Afghanistan twice. Yeah. Should we have stayed to protect the people against the Taliban? We should have maintained the levels that were presented. So if you look at the 2,500 American troops to 3,500 be rotating back and forth, plus the 8,000 NATO troops that are going to be there, about 11,000 folks. To keep an RSR presence at Bagram Airfield would have been the prudent thing to do. The over the horizon counterterrorism capability that Joe Biden was bragging about clearly does not exist. (38:29–38:42)

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Asserts that maintaining 11,000 troops in Afghanistan would have been prudent.

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