04/23/2013
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"I would think, General Dempsey, it has been pointed out here that we have spent multiple years, 10 years plus, a trillion dollars, lost a lot of lives in Iraq, and we had 100,000 troops there at one t..."
"Did we not see signs that Maliki was incompetent, that he would have gone strictly to a sectarian position?"
"Why hasn't the YPG [People's Protection Units] or the Syrian Kurds been involved in these talks?"
"What's the end game this time? Is it going to repeat what we've done before? Are we going to get bogged down for 10 years or more again?"