Adam Smith actually said...

I have seen the progress, and not just in Kabul, not just in the capital, but out in some of the tougher regions.

Smith acknowledges the progress made by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

04/16/2013

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We could drop 200,000 U.S. troops in the middle of this; it wouldn't solve the problem.

What we have to do is tactically use the U.S. military to help the right people and move things in the right direction.

But, as I have said many times before, that cow has left the barn. Iraq is fractured. You can make a pretty powerful argument, in fact, that...

shouldn't we be shifting a lot of our focus to that and basically saying to Baghdad, time's up?