CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin October 6, 2015 18:30:00
U.s. withdrawal by 2017 and then his general saying another thing? >> well, i think it's just a good indicator of why time lines are never a good idea. combat is event driven. i can remember when i was in the deputy command general in afghanistan and we had secretary gates come over and we said to him we don't have enough troops here and in my view the afghanistan fight since day one has been underresourced. and secretary gates to his credit said okay, we're going to get you more troops and we have another combat team on the ground in the time frame. so it's a dynamic situation. and timelines ...
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