We don't have to treasury to deal with it. I think the risk of our young men and women's lives. It's amazing how people do not read history books. Afghanistan has tried to be occupied so many times. The Russians, the British, the Ottomans. You can go on and on and eventually they give up because they say what is the importance of that parcel of territory and trying to rule that group of people which don't want us there. (1:08:11–1:08:20)
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Asserts that Afghanistan has been unsuccessfully occupied by multiple foreign powers.
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