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

The Fifth Column

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Is That a Sales Job?

"I would say there's still a lot of bad guys in Afghanistan and our forces are primarily concerned with finding them and killing them," he said. "We're not going to leave if it means that the Taliban are going to overrun the country because that's an unacceptable outcome as well." He added: "Foreign policy is almost always a choice between bad and horrible. And you got to choose bad sometimes because it's not horrible".

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