John Kerry actually said...

"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..."

"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."

"The fact is that Afghanistan always was the place where it was of greatest intensity. And this shifting has cost us enormously."

"Well, I think that is ridiculous, on its face."