Don Bacon: “We have to do more than just help folks--we have to do more to help folks navigate out of poverty.”

I think he was being honest. And I think he was setting maybe false expectations...

We still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

There's a good versus evil here, and America should be, you know, unabashedly for the right side here, the democracy, the country that wants free markets.