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On the recordSeptember 28, 2021
I appreciate your looking at it as a fighter. But I would also add one more year of propping up a corrupt government and an army that would not fight on its own would not give us a better outcome, and anyone who thinks differently is either fooling themselves or trying to fool the rest of us.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts
Source
msnbc.com

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Senator Warren argues against the idea that staying longer in Afghanistan would have improved the situation, criticizing the previous government and military.

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