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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions

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I'll Believe We Have the Right Strategy When That Curve Starts Going Clearly Down

After the surge, it did. It was really remarkable. At the end in 2008, the level of violence was still present, but it was not a strategic threat to the stability of the Iraqi government. So we felt pretty good about where we ended up on Iraq. We did not have that kind of moment in Afghanistan. And there's a lot of reasons for that. I think a number of factors contributed to the success in Iraq that were not present in Afghanistan. The president made it very clear is this is a long-term proposition.

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