But I also feel that it's important to connect that to the nation, that it's true for individuals that no success can compensate for failure in the home. But it's also true for us as a nation, that No national success, no conquest, if you will, would ever compensate for failure for us to be a good and noble people. We've made mistakes, terrible geopolitical mistakes in our history. When I consider Vietnam one of those, and I think clearly how we exercised our power in Afghanistan and in Iraq, it didn't work out the way we wanted to. (16:58–17:06)
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Asserts that national success cannot compensate for moral failure.
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