fred kempe. caller: with your permission going to say something about the previous caller, a marine. i suggest anyone listening, and this is why i like to call -- come on and hear those colors. read a new piece -- those callers. read a new piece about an author who writes about the costs of the very long wars and he differentiates between as the current caller, on the war on terror and the war on afghanistan and asks the question, is it possible we could have won the one war and loss the others. -- and lost the others. we have seen russia take crimea and parts of eastern ukraine. you have seen iran step up if -- it's roxy warfare in the middle east. it is a very fragile situation and that is what he writes about. my own view in terms of your current caller is that we had more or less withdrawn from afghanistan. we were down to 2500 troops. we had had a military service casualty since february of 2020. this week was our biggest day of casualties for the american military since 2011. here henry kis

military operations, we are joined by fred kempe fred, good morning president biden receiving heated criticism from both democrats and republicans following his speech last night. i'm curious your reaction to the president's speech >> well, that was yesterday, yesterday was the worst day in president biden's presidency this was the worst week in his presidency he's lost more people in one day than we've lost in afghanistan, military people, i mean we lost in afghanistan in 18 months. so he has to stay on track and get the evacuations working effectively and for it to continue to go but the reality has sunk in that people are right that afghanistan is going to, again, become a haven for terrorism. that the taliban either willfully or it could not secure the perimeter of the airport or it chose not to secure the perimeter of the airport but either way, this is the new reality. and this will also encourage ji jihadists and terrorists around the world. for them this is god has spoken and god is good and we now had a big victory. our biggest victory in decades and it's time to build again

fred kempe. caller: with your permission going to say something about the previous caller, a marine. i suggest anyone listening, and this is why i like to call -- come on and hear those colors. read a new piece -- those callers. read a new piece about an author who writes about the costs of the very long wars and he differentiates between as the current caller, on the war on terror and the war on afghanistan and asks the question, is it possible we could have won the one war and loss the others. -- and lost the others. we have seen russia take crimea and parts of eastern ukraine. you have seen iran step up if -- it's roxy warfare in the middle east. it is a very fragile situation and that is what he writes about. my own view in terms of your current caller is that we had more or less withdrawn from afghanistan. we were down to 2500 troops. we had had a military service casualty since february of 2020. this week was our biggest day of casualties for the american military since 2011. here henry kis

fred kempe. caller: with your permission going to say something about the previous caller, a marine. i suggest anyone listening, and this is why i like to call -- come on and hear those colors. read a new piece -- those callers. read a new piece about an author who writes about the costs of the very long wars and he differentiates between as the current caller, on the war on terror and the war on afghanistan and asks the question, is it possible we could have won the one war and loss the others. -- and lost the others. we have seen russia take crimea and parts of eastern ukraine. you have seen iran step up if -- it's roxy warfare in the middle east. it is a very fragile situation and that is what he writes about. my own view in terms of your current caller is that we had more or less withdrawn from afghanistan. we were down to 2500 troops. we had had a military service casualty since february of 2020. this week was our biggest day of casualties for the american military since 2011. here henry kis