CNN Anderson Cooper 360 August 17, 2021 04:28:00
Years because the attention had shifted to iraq. and so, president obama was trying to formulate a strategy for afghanistan that was missing. the pentagon felt, strongly, that to stabilize afghanistan, we needed to have a surge and this was a huge debate, within the administration. and joe biden was concerned that the mission was shifting away from its intention, which is what he talked about today, which was to disable al qaeda and go after the people who had attacked the u.s. and he felt that we should limit our mission there because we would get bogged down, endlessly. he turned out to be r...