On the recordFebruary 27, 2012
I think history will show, and this was before your time as Secretary, that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.
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Leahy critiques U.S. military ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq as misguided and costly.
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