10/27/2008
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"The likelihood there`s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. We have trained and equipped a standing force of over 300,000 Afghan personnel to..."
"I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. How many more lives, American lives, is it worth? How many endl..."
"No, I don`t. Look, are you telling me that we should go into China because -- go to war with China because what they`re doing to the Uyghurs, a million Uyghurs in the west in concentration camps?"
"I will not repeat the mistakes we`ve made in the past, the mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interests of the United States, of doubling down on a ..."