Don Bacon: “This is a war on poverty, not a war on the impoverished.”

I think he needed to set appropriate and honest expectations here.

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.

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

It's not good for our national security, and we are allies. We have to work together to counter Russia, to counter China.