02/22/2016
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"No. If you can't -- if you can't do one of those two things, you have hit the nail on the head. We have a serious containment issue."
"Why do we have seven times the number of troops in Iraq that we have in Afghanistan? I think that tells the story."
"Well, I suggested that, for the moment, if you were to increase the special forces units and the -- and the other sectors that I talked about by about 5,000, I believe you could send an important mess..."
"No. I think that the Taliban -- well, winning -- I think it is a losing proposition right now, in the sense that it's going downhill and backwards. The Taliban is resurgent in the south. And there are..."