MSNBC Morning Joe October 18, 2019 10:10:00
Here. this was not a huge deployment of troops. when i commanded the missing in afghanistan, supreme allied commander, we had 150,000 troops there. in iraq at peak we had 185,000 troops. this was 2,000 to 3,000 special forces and it's a mistake like the butch boy pulling his finger out of the dike to let that region just fall into chaos giving iran an open sweep of turf that goes from baghdad through damascus to the mediterranean sea all for pulling out 2,000 troops. i get it on middle east fatigue in the country, but this was leverage. this was a small investment that leveraged tens of thousa...
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