Rep Waltz: Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal 'breaks my heart', 'worse' than Obama leaving Iraq

Former Green Beret and current U.S. Representative Michael Waltz, R-Fla, joined Fox News' Marth MacCallum on 'The Story' Wednesday to react to President Biden's decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year

During the interview, MacCallum cut to President Biden's visit to Arlington National Cemetary where he said his decision to withdraw troops was not difficult to make and was "absolutely clear." WALTZ: I want to make out the point in the last year, we've actually taken zero casualties in Afghanistan. We lost more in training accidents in the Navy than we lost in Afghanistan in the last year. So if the goal is to bring troops home, I remind people, we have 50,000 in Japan, 30,000 in Germany. We still have troops in the Sinai watching the Suez Canal. There are other great places where we can bring troops home, where we don't have terrorists ready to attack the homeland. Again, the other thing I want to mention, we still have an American hostage being held there by the Taliban. It's very unclear what we're going to get for that. Finally, on great power competition, which is one of the main justifications for doing this, the only country in the world where we have a base that borders China is in Afghanistan. It's also a southern flank of Russia, eastern flank of Iran. Why we would give that base away and get nothing there return, it befuddles me.