09/21/2016
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"Without foreign soldiers supporting them, Afghan forces would begin to deteriorate, fairly quickly in 2015."
"This is the first trillion dollar system that we have ever had. What are the lessons learned in this imbroglio where we have gone from $233 billion in 2001 to over $391 billion this year?"
"The first lesson is we tend to be overly optimistic when we start programs in terms of how much they are going to cost, what the real risk is, and how long they are going to take."
"If we had adhered to that principle, we probably would not find ourselves in the situation we are in."