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Day, we believed we would be under assault for a certain amount of time and we then for 20 years really pushed i think a lot of the, let's just say a lot of the anger and a lot of sense of vulnerability into afghanistan, and of course later to iraq, which is sort of an unwritten piece, and we're not talking about it as much, 20 years later, as we probably should, the extent to which the war in iraq really changed the effort against terrorism. >> i have a documentary that is airing tomorrow night on cnn, 9:00 eastern, on the war in afghanistan. we interviewed eight of the commanding generals. g...
Pretty candid and one of the things that mccrystal said and i thought was interesting, if we could do it again, he would have the united states of america after 9/11 take a breath, take a year, learn erdo, have individuals in the military and state department, become experts at least to the degree you can within a year and pause, not rush to do something. and i pointed out, i think accurately, that any president that attempted to do that would be impeached, you know, that there was such a demand for vengeance, and yet, in retrospect, you know, while i can't argue against the decision to go aft...
Even as Donald Trump discussed pulling America out of NATO, tried withdrawing US troops from South Korea, moved to pull 12,000 troops out of Germany, withdrew America’s effective 1,000 man fighting force from Kurdish areas in Syria, and ordered a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by January 20, 2021 as part of his policy of ending “senseless wars,” he manifested a militaristic foreign policy that almost led America into two major and potentially high casualty wars in Asia. The Inconsistencies of Trump’s Military Retreatism. While Trump as a candidate had previously at...