They don't want us there. Fundamentally, we're not going to change unless we, unless we want to double down and stay there for another 50, 100 years. We're not going to remake the society in the way that we want it because they don't want our form of government, our form of society. And we have to be realistic about these things. Was Iraq a mistake? What? Was Iraq a mistake? I don't have the intelligence to determine that. (1:09:02–1:09:11)
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Asserts that the U.S. cannot impose its form of government on Afghanistan.
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