H.R. McMaster says Taliban takeover of Afghanistan a result of 'precipitous withdrawal'

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H.R. McMaster calls Taliban takeover of Afghanistan ‘heartbreaking and frustrating’

Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster reacts to the hundreds of Afghans running across the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport desperate to flee the return of the Taliban.

Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster joined ‘The Story with Martha MacCallum’ on Monday and reacted to the hundreds of Afghans running alongside the U.S. Air Force transport plane as it moved down a runway of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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H.R. MCMASTER: It's heartbreaking, it's frustrating, you know, I think it's wholly unnecessary. That's what's so sad about it, Martha. I mean, we delivered psychological blows to the Afghan security forces into the Afghan people far beyond the physical blows that the Taliban was capable of delivering. You know, this is by our precipitous withdrawal. And I think just the utter lack of planning for what we knew, what we knew would be a humanitarian catastrophe of colossal scale.

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