After White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest touted "significant progress" made in dismantling the terror network in Afghanistan, Fox News reporter Ed Henry responded incredulously, "How can you say 'progress' when an American general was killed today?"
A two-star general was killed in an attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Henry asked Earnest whether the general's death might "raise questions about whether we’re going to be getting out of Afghanistan too quickly, in that timeline you mentioned earlier, and that the fear of, you know, the Taliban and al-Qaida building back up again?"
Earnest replied that "There’s no doubt that over the last 12 years that threat has been significantly degraded and the threat that emanates from Afghanistan to the United States has been significantly reduced."
Earlier Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), who has called for troop drawdowns in the past, reacted to the general's death by predicting "great problems ahead" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
