07/16/2019
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"If our people aren't safer, then we shouldn't move out of there. And I don't think that that metric is going to be met."
"There has to be an objective that's met, in order to actually withdraw. Otherwise, you're just doing it for optics."
"In the short-term, we went from a situation, where the Taliban were our hostages, to a situation, where Americans, and those that helped us, are now basically the hostages of the Taliban, within Afgha..."
"I really appreciate the work that you-all have done on toxic algal blooms."