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:'''Sullivan.''' This is, ah, I think, a very good example of the difficult choices a president faces and a secretary of defense and secretary of state and national security adviser face in the context of the end of a 20-year war.  Those Blackhawks were not given to the Taliban they were given to the Afghan National Security forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request to President Ghani who came to the Oval Office and asked for additional air capability among other things. So the president had a choice he could not give it to them with the risk that it would fall into the Taliban's hands eventually or he could give it to them with the hope that they could deploy it in service of defending their country. Both of those options had risks he had to choose and he made a choice and from the point of view of that, uh, particular narrow example to a, for a, much wider range of examples that we contend with at the end of the day what the president has focused on all the way through here is trying to take the information that's been presented to him, the risks, costs and benefits of,<ref>"Cost-benefit analysis is a Republican spending reform of the Reagan era.</ref> and make decisions that were in the best national security interests of the American people. He has tried to do that. He talked about that at length yesterday, uh, and from that perspective, he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/nsa-jake-sullivan-says-the-taliban-has-a-fair-amount-of-our-weapons-and-they-probably-wont-give-them-back-video/</ref>
 
:'''Sullivan.''' This is, ah, I think, a very good example of the difficult choices a president faces and a secretary of defense and secretary of state and national security adviser face in the context of the end of a 20-year war.  Those Blackhawks were not given to the Taliban they were given to the Afghan National Security forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request to President Ghani who came to the Oval Office and asked for additional air capability among other things. So the president had a choice he could not give it to them with the risk that it would fall into the Taliban's hands eventually or he could give it to them with the hope that they could deploy it in service of defending their country. Both of those options had risks he had to choose and he made a choice and from the point of view of that, uh, particular narrow example to a, for a, much wider range of examples that we contend with at the end of the day what the president has focused on all the way through here is trying to take the information that's been presented to him, the risks, costs and benefits of,<ref>"Cost-benefit analysis is a Republican spending reform of the Reagan era.</ref> and make decisions that were in the best national security interests of the American people. He has tried to do that. He talked about that at length yesterday, uh, and from that perspective, he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/nsa-jake-sullivan-says-the-taliban-has-a-fair-amount-of-our-weapons-and-they-probably-wont-give-them-back-video/</ref>
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==Not fit to lead==
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==China: 'not fit to lead'==
 
[[File:Yang Jiechi Antony Blinken.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Central Foreign Affairs Commission director [[Yang Jiechi]] to Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken: "The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”<ref>https://www.waynedupree.com/2021/03/biden-china-us-argument-alaska/</ref>]]
 
[[File:Yang Jiechi Antony Blinken.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Central Foreign Affairs Commission director [[Yang Jiechi]] to Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken: "The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”<ref>https://www.waynedupree.com/2021/03/biden-china-us-argument-alaska/</ref>]]
 
In Sullivan's 's first meeting with Communist Chinese bosses, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi instructed  Sullivan and [[Anthony Blinken]],
 
In Sullivan's 's first meeting with Communist Chinese bosses, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi instructed  Sullivan and [[Anthony Blinken]],
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