In a career defined by service, admitting to our strategic missteps in Afghanistan is not just an obligation but a necessary step towards honoring the sacrifice of those who served and ensuring such failures are never repeated.
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day, we believed we would be under assault for a certain amount of time and we then for 20 years really pushed i think a lot of the, let s just say a lot of the anger and a lot of sense of vulnerability into afghanistan, and of course later to iraq, which is sort of an unwritten piece, and we re not talking about it as much, 20 years later, as we probably should, the extent to which the war in iraq really changed the effort against terrorism. i have a documentary that is airing tomorrow night on cnn, 9:00 eastern, on the war in afghanistan. we interviewed eight of the commanding generals. general mccrystal, who was our commanding general from roughly 2009 to 2010, he said something very interesting, he said he thought that he could go back and do it all over again and the generals i have to say whatever you think of them and how honest the pentagon and the various administrations have been with the american people and we will get that to that in the documentary the generals were
pretty candid and one of the things that mccrystal said and i thought was interesting, if we could do it again, he would have the united states of america after 9/11 take a breath, take a year, learn erdo, have individuals in the military and state department, become experts at least to the degree you can within a year and pause, not rush to do something. and i pointed out, i think accurately, that any president that attempted to do that would be impeached, you know, that there was such a demand for vengeance, and yet, in retrospect, you know, while i can t argue against the decision to go after al qaeda, in retrospect, i can t say that taking a breath and trying to figure out ho do th, how to do things the right way and not the quick way, should be the legacy of 9/11. we shouldn t forget that president bush asked for war plan force iraq december in