We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.
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Nationality: American Type: Public Servant Born: December 2, 1924 Death: February 20, 2010 |
“The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.”
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”