He tries to act like it was the right decision. If you ask actual experts about this, they would say you could’ve left a couple thousand non-combat advisors there and that would’ve been enough to at least keep the situation stable. Instead we threw away all those years of money and blood and energy. And just gave it right back to the same terrorists we took it from.
I would go as far as saying that this is kind of a signal of declining US power If this is the kind of thing we would do. It’s embarrassing and it makes us look weak and not committed.