EXCERPT:
SULLIVAN: "I can say that the United States achieved the objective it set out when we went into Afghanistan in the first place, which was to get the people who attacked us on 9/11. We have degraded Al-Qaeda. We have killed bin Laden. And, in fact, we killed bin Laden a decade ago, 10 years ago. And since then, the various missions in the war have moved and adjusted and changed. But the fundamental, core reason for this conflict in the first place, we achieved that. And that is why President Biden has determined that it's time to finally bring this to a close and focus on the battles of the next 20 years, rather than the last 20 years."