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326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues"

The Fifth Column

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The Light Footprint in Vietnam

The old strategy of how you win a war is, by the way, still the strategy that works. You drop nukes on Japan but that actually met with the anti-war movement and then that kind of came apart. I don't think that's what Donald Rumsfeld was thinking when he has the light footprint in Afghanistan. We are very good at winning wars, people say America keeps losing wars. And they do this in a way, which is just like, you know, I don't care for the niceties of democratic society. That's the way you can win, right?"

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