Dick Lugar: “We were not succeeding, we were not failing. We were just marking…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011

We were not succeeding, we were not failing. We were just marking time.

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Lugar describes the U.S. military situation in Afghanistan as stagnant.

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Dick Lugar: “We were not succeeding, we were not failing. We were just marking time.”