You said this is not a regime change war, but the regime has changed. That's obvious. Can you square the two? Sure, go ahead. I meant what I said. It's not a regime change war in the conventional George W. Bush context of hundreds of thousands of troops. I mean, in Afghanistan, what I watched as a young captain was Americans thinking we were going to remake a society that was basically biblical times with AK47s and cell phones. (12:09–12:17)
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Asserts that current actions are not a traditional regime change war.
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