John McCain actually said...

Our mission was to ensure that Afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al-Qaeda or other radical Islamist terrorists to attack us again.

McCain outlines the purpose of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.

10/05/2015

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I hope, Ambassador, you'll make some representations to the Iraqi Government concerning the situation in Camp Ashraf.

We disregard Iraq at great peril.

The Iraqis are interested in having an air force, for obvious reasons.

Without the U.S. presence there, it would take a long time before Iraq would have the ability to replicate that capability?