Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

2/ Patraeus says the problem was a) we refused to stay longer; b) we spent too little $ and on the wrong stuff; and c) we didn't understand Afghanistan. What he fails to realize is that (a) and (b) don't matter if (c) is true. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 10, 2022

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

I greatly respect General Patraeus, but there is real danger is allowing the magical thinking of "if we had spent more money or stayed longer everything would have been fine" to persist. 1/ A few thoughts on why "more" wouldn't have fixed Afghanistan. https://t.co/oEipKiAn71 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 10, 2022

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3/ From the start, we didn't understand Afghanistan, a country wildly different from and more complicated than Iraq. And our structure of rotating generals and soldiers in and out 12 months at a time meant that we were destined to never learn Afghanistan. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 10, 2022