Rand Paul: “The lesson of the two-decade debacle in Afghanistan is not that we did…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2021

The lesson of the two-decade debacle in Afghanistan is not that we did not stay long enough. It is that we stayed too long.

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Senator Paul argues that prolonged U.S. involvement in Afghanistan was counterproductive.

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