在八月, Ratcliffe referred to the fallout from the Afghanistan withdrawal as “Christmas in August” for America’s adversaries. Almost one year later, his opinion had not changed.
“It did not take Nostradamus to think that our adversaries would watch not just a withdrawal but a surrender and a defeat in Afghanistan that was shocking to all. Our adversaries watching that really saw that this was a different administration,” 拉特克利夫 说.