CNN Anderson Cooper 360 August 25, 2021 01:24:00
American foreign policy. but we never really reckoned with what we were trying to achieve in that policy, what it would mean to win. and the 20 years is in some ways the starkest example of this, the shifting sense of objectives, what the mission was. we never really settled on that. in some way if we could go back and talk to our september 12th sefbls and tell them in the next 20 years there'd be something like 1tion citizens killed on u.s. soil, if you remembered the fear in the days afterwards that would seem like a remarkable achievement. if we had told ourselves we would get involved we'd...
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