01/09/2017
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"Well, I trust them about as much to do that as I do to police chemical weapons."
"But I just don't see how the State Department can operate if the security environment doesn't exist, and if we withdraw too soon, it will fall apart, and that's just the way the world is."
"I asked him point blank what would happen if we withdrew in the next 6 months in Afghanistan. He said he thinks it would lead to a lot of disorder and chaos."
"If we withdrew from the north without sound thinking, do you worry about the Turkey-Kurdish conflict arising anew?"