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Pete Buttigieg: “By the time I was there, it was getting a little harder to…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 47:20

So that's just one example, but that's kind of what I'm getting at. Yeah, but the strategic objective of the Afghan war, the Afghanistan conflict, was to disempower the Taliban. Yeah. Although By the time I was there, it was getting a little harder to figure out what the strategic objective actually was [in Afghanistan]. I would go work out, and there's this room on the ISAF headquarters where I was stationed. It was like a gym workout room. (47:20–47:27)

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Asserts that the strategic objectives of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan became unclear over time.

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