CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper August 19, 2021 21:05:00
Able to and that's in a sense something similar to what he says now. >> listen to what he said to george stef luce in the interview this morning about nation building that, after al qaeda was defeated the bush administration decided this needed to rebuild afghanistan so there wouldn't be the conditions that had al qaeda go there in the first place. take a listen. >> then what happened? it began to morph into the notion that instead of having a counterterrorism capability, to have small forces there or in the region to be able to take on al qaeda if they tried to reconstitute, we decided to eng...