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I think we're, you know, we're still seeing how al Qaeda and ISIS are configuring themselves against the Taliban, we're still seeing what the Taliban is going to do, McKenzie said. I would not say I'm confident that that's going to be on the ground yet, we could get to that point, but I do not yet have that level of confidence.

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My analysis was that an accelerated withdrawal, without meeting specific and necessary conditions, risks losing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan [and] damaging U.S. worldwide credibility,” McKenzie said.

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The war on terror is not over, and the war in Afghanistan is not over either, McKenzie said.

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I won't share my personal recommendation to The President but I will give you my honest opinion. And my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation, i recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended earlier, in the fall of 2020, that we maintain 4,500 at that time. Those are my personal views.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

The war on terror is not over, and the war in Afghanistan is not over either.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

I think we're, you know, we're still seeing how al Qaeda and ISIS are configuring themselves against the Taliban, we're still seeing what the Taliban is going to do, i would not say I'm confident that that's going to be on the ground yet, we could get to that point, but I do not yet have that level of confidence.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

This particular strike was certainly a terrible mistake and we certainly regret that, and I've been very clear that we take full responsibility for it. At the same time, we were carrying out a number of complex operations designed to defend ourselves, so while I agree... this strike certainly did not come up to our standards... I would not qualify the entire operation in those terms.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

This was a self-defense strike based on an imminent threat to attack us, that is not the way we would strike in an( over the horizon) mission.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago

We didn't take the strike because we thought we were wrong -- we took the strike because we thought we had a good target.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago

We've worked intensely to evacuate and relocate Afghans who worked alongside us, and are at particular risk of reprisal. We've gotten many out, but many are still there. We will keep working to help them. Our commitment to them has no deadline.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago

We will coordinate very carefully to make sure that it's safe for American citizens to come to the airfield, if it's not, we'll tell them to hold, and then we'll work other ways to try to get them to the airfield.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

In meetings with Taliban senior leaders in Doha on Sunday, I cautioned them against interference in our evacuation, and made it clear to them that any attack would be met with overwhelming force in the defense of our forces.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

We will have an architecture in the theater that will allow us to look into Afghanistan, it will not give us the same picture that we have now. It will allow us to see in. The ranges will be greater, the resources will be greater, the risks will all be greater, but it will be possible to do those again. It is certainly not impossible, but we won't have the vision we have now.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 3 years ago

The intelligence wasn't proved to me. It was proved enough to worry me. It wasn't proved enough that I'd take it to a court of law. That's often true in battlefield intelligence.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago

I just didn't find that there was a causative link there. It worried me, and we take extreme force protection measures all the time in Afghanistan, you see a lot of indicators. Many of them are troubling ; many of them you act on. But in this case, there just wasn't enough there. I sent the intelligence guys back to continue to dig on it. And I believe they're continuing to dig right now.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN 4 years ago

Certainly, the pace of operations went down earlier in the year, based on events in Iraq, were now back up to, I think, probably three or four operations a week with our partners here so that pace is beginning to pick up and we are very pleased with that.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago

He knows, and I agree, that were not going to be here for 100 years, i frankly dont know how long were going to be here, and I have no instructions other than to continue to work with our partner here.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on FOX News 4 years ago

We believe they are recalculating. They have to take this into account as they think about various actions that they might take. So we think this is having a very god stabilizing effect, they are looking hard at the carrier because they know we are looking hard at them.

– Frank McKenzie