sailor, airman and marine who was born after 9/11 killed in action somewhere in the global war on terror that days events brought. and so the idea that we should have a permanent garrison force for 20, 40, 50 years in afghanistan, i profoundly disagree with. the idea that we can turn afghanistan into a jeffersonian democracy has always been a fools errand. that being said, how we get out has to be as with care, with thought and frankly, a lot greater thought than how we entered into some of these countries. i think the how is a great point. and that s i think part of what s united people so much about this is how insane the how was. i mean, i remember that sunday night all of a sudden twitter lights up and it s like, wait, the white house put out a statement on what?
that before the next presidential election we will see the first american soldier, sailor, airman and marine who was born after 9/11 killed in action somewhere in the global war on terror that days events brought. and so the idea we should have a permanent garrison force for 20, 40, 50 years in afghanistan, i profoundly disagree with. the idea that we can turn afghanistan into a jeffersonian democracy has always been a fools errand. that being said how we get out has to be as with care, with thought and frankly a lot greater thought than how we entered into some of these countries. i think the how is a great point. and that s i think part of what s united people so much about this is how insane the how was. i mean i remember that sunday night all of a sudden twitter lights up and it s like, wait,
essentially forever. i think one thing is certainly likely to be true, is that before the next presidential election, we will see the first american sailor, soldier, marine, airmen, born after 9/11 killed in action somewhere in the global war on terror that days events brought. so the idea that we should be a permanent force for 20, 30, 40, 50 years in afghanistan, i profoundly disagree with. the idea that we can turn afghanistan into a jeffersonian democracy has always been a fool s errand. that said, how we get out has to be it s the how part. with care, with thought and, frankly, a lot greater thought than how we entered into some of these countries. i think the how is a great point. that s i think part of what has united people so much about
back in. i worry about the same kinds of arguments being used then and stopping and promoting a war going on essentially forever. i think one thing is certainly likely to be true is that before the next presidential election, we will see the first american soldier, sailor, airman or marine who was born after 9/11 killed in action somewhere in the global war on terror that day s events wrought. the idea we should have a permanent garrison force, 20, 40 years in afghanistan, i profoundly disagree w. tith. the idea we can turn it into a jeffersonian democracy. that said, how we get out has to be with care, with thought. and, frankly, a lot greater
lot of time in the news today, for decades. and maybe that s how we need to be thinking about afghanistan. all right. and general mccaffrey said afterwards we need to play a bigger role in nation building. this is something the trump administration has said they don t want to do. right? there s a whole contingent here who said it s not our business, we re good at taking out dictators or leaders or bad people, we re not really good at the second part of this. and what we re seeing in libya, in syria, in iraq, in yemen and in afghanistan is our failure to be able to direct that part of the process when you go into a place where there are bad leaders. yeah, i don t think we should be trying to remake afghanistan into some sort of a jeffersonian democracy. but i think we can help them battle corruption. i think we can help the ghani government become more effective in governing the country. i don t think our goal should be nation building. again, what s at stake for the united states i