General Milley still has his job. Lloyd Austin, our Secretary of Defense, still has his job. Nobody was held accountable, and that was a dereliction of duty. When they decided to allow the Taliban to be placed in charge of security for our troops, everyone knew that was a disaster waiting to happen. We could all see it and feel it, and yet they went ahead and did it. And that's what directly allowed these Marines to lose their lives. (08:45–08:52)
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Asserts that allowing the Taliban to control security was widely recognized as a poor decision.
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