05/20/2015
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"By 2016, we're down to an Embassy force. There is no residual force."
"it is in our national security interest not to give these guys safe haven in Syria and Iraq, because the next 9/11 could very well come from that region."
"Do you worry about if--if Afghanistan falls apart like Iraq, that one of the collateral damages could be destabilizing even further a nuclear-armed Pakistan?"
"I don't want to cede Iraq to Iran, but, at the same time, I don't want to blunder into a situation without thinking this thing through."