But what I do know is that we often, when we start conflicts like this, we, we often can't control how they end. When you see the Iraq war and mission accomplished, a year after we go in, yes, we can beat the Iraqi military, but then we had a decade of civil war and unrest that is still left Iraq as a shell of what it used to be. And that's still a violent place. And I've been there and I've seen it myself. So we often don't know how these things will end. (09:29–09:44)
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